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Prezza breaks with Labour to tell Adam Boulton:
“I don’t like you but I don’t want to put you under statutory control.”
DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:
Maybe if they really wanted to “decontaminate the Labour brand” with business people, they shouldn’t have totally buggered up the economy?
Just a thought.
Labours Unite funded attack blogs Left Foot Forwards and Labour List seem to be curiously quiet on this matter……….
And the Government (read taxpayers) funds the unions with the Union Modernisation Fund and other cleaver wheezes.
Sorry, clever, clever, clever
it’s funny because they won’t talk about Ashcrofts tax avoiding cash handouts
geddit William ?
Ha Ha Ha Ha !
We’re all red-faced about Lord Ashcroft together.
Nevertheless. We’re all using the BA strike to strike directly and very effectively at Charlie Whelan together.
The Labour government is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Unite. Brown is now comprehensively stuffed because if the strike goes ahead Labour will get the blame and if it’s called off at the last minute everyone will say it was a put-up job. And if the strike fails and the union is defeated it will remind the electorate what a great prime minister Margaret Thatcher was. Posties next. Bring them on.
You have a short memory last week was news was wire to wire on Ashcroft bordering on saturation. The UNITE issue is a much bigger story given the effect it has on thousand of passengers and the future of a flagship brand in serious financial trouble. Given the situation with the economy and the terms and conditions issues this is NOT a strike that is justified at this time. BA cabin crew are already the highest paid they should resolve this without a strike. The offer made by BA last week that seemed on the face of it to be fair one to both sides was rejected by UNITE and then later was asked to be put back on the table! That is a strange way to negotiate do you not think.
It’s probably best to ignore the ZaNuLieBor trolls. At least in Dolly’s day they were occasionally funny. Nowadays their desperation is quite pitiful to behold.
If you don’t want the Parties funded by dodgy foreigners or unions then it’ll have to be by the State
And we know the public won’t stand for that because the public thinks all politicians are thieving scum
said the patheticaly desperate shitmonkey tory rimming troll
Mastur Bator – you are still here spilling your bile as well as your puny seed!
Porkbusters, you jest, of course.
A quick search at the Electoral Commission website showed that our impoverished Parliamentary parties received £9,301,670 of public funds last year.
http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/party-finance/public_funding
Full funding and you know it.
But like I said, the public already think Parliament is full of thieves so it’s not going to happen, is it?
Reluctantly, I do agree with Porkbusters. Full state funding of political parties may not be the best way to do it, but it’s probably the least worst.
Porkbuster’s ida has one big flaw. Give them state funding, and then set in place some expensive regulatory hurdles that any political party has to jump through. Then you’ve locked out any newcomers and LibLabCon can rule for ever no matter what the fuck they decide to do.
Didn’t you used to post as someone else?
Nope, cleaver is probably more apt. Cleaver in Brown’s head would be even better.
Here’s an idea…..
Why not recruit more members and use their membership fees as the foundation of party funding?
Oh yeah- like that’s going to happen. That would mean the leaderships in all parties would be fully accountable to their members.
Well, we shouldn’t use state funding. If they can’t support themselves they should be allowed to wither and die.
Only tossflaps join political parties these days anyway.
Cleaver is about right!
What goes around, comes around. I have blogged about this clever Labour funding process before but it is odd how the BBC seem to have no interest in this scam.
@NotASheep
Can you post a link? Love to see it.
Does something stink about Charlie Whelan being involved with Gordon Brown, Unite and the Labour party?
Any suggestions Brown’s intervention may be a set-up by Whelan to make it look like he’s not owned by the unions?
in fairness, Michael Crick had a pop at it on Newsnight last night – I was rather surprised
The BBC are running the same scam dumbo !!
Guido, a relevent video
Whelan hugging Draper
And it takes twice as many Charlies to carry OUR cash out of Downing Street!
If only McMental had done that with our gold!
I think all co-conspirators need to write complaints against Brown’s Broadcasting Corporation. They consistently fail to report in a balanced fair way. None of Labour’s failings, highlighted by Guido, over the last week have made a mention in the news.
If this is the case of public money being redirected to the Labour funds via the Unite Union could this be described as fraud? If so, surely there could be some scope for investigation by the boys in blue? If after investigation these scurrilous accusations are found to be true who is then arrested and prosecuted? Obviously Gordon will know nothing about this!!
I guess there won’t be much left for strike pay to those brave BA cabin crew members leading their company into receivership and themselves out of a job.
Fucking dolts. Just cannon-fodder being ordered over the top by Colonel Melchett back at HQ.
Not one of them with the wit to frag the officers ordering them off on their pointless suicide missions.
Meanwhile the shock-troops, the nurses, are being held in reserve for the big ‘push’ when the Tories win the election.
Thousands of photogenic nurses in uniform, their faces contorted with spite and bile, shrieking into the TV cameras about ‘a fair days pay for a fair days work’. The country on its knees. The private sector being taxed to death to meet the unions insane demands, the currency in the shitter, inflation through the roof and Brown and the rest of the economic destroyers walking around with faux concerned faces giving it ‘Nothing to do with me guv…’
The evil fucking bastards.
And of course evil, disingenuous bastards like Balls and Straw giving it ‘We told you the NHS was only safe in our hands…’
Nurses on strike? How would we tell?
My mother’s district nurse never shows up on time and often never shows up at all. In hospitals all they seem to do is lounge around the desk eating chocolates and arranging the patients’ flowers.
My mother-in-law was in hospital before Christmas. You couldn’t even bring in flowers – because they’d be ‘unhygienic’. But get this – I shit you not – once a week they had a scheme whereby they would bring a fucking dog into the hospital as some sort of ‘therapy’ whereby patients would feel better just seeing and petting a lovely fluffy fucking dog or something.
Seriously. Flowers unhygienic. Shitting, slobbering, drooling fucking dog-breathed dog – that’s OK.
Insanity.
It’s political correctness gorn mad !!!!!
you can’t even get treated for free in a hospital bed without some Red Robbo Lesbian Activist do-gooder setting a devil dog on you to eat your legs while stealing your flowers to sell to Fidel Castro
blinking bonkers it is
The ‘evil fucking bastards’ refers to Brown and the unions for setting this up.
Obviously. Although I don’t doubt that will be the tactic used by the evil fucking bastards whenever anybody tries to point out what the evil fucking bastards are up to.
That is why the nurses will be used to destroy the Tories and in an act of spectacular collateral damage, what remains of the UK economy and our currency. Because any objection to the nurses being used in the destruction of the UK economy will be wilfully misinterpreted as an attack on the nurses as opposed to an attack on the evil fuckers who are pushing their buttons.
“nurses in uniform, their faces contorted with spite and bile, shrieking into the TV cameras about ‘a fair days pay for a fair days work’.”
your words, so obviously ? right ? wrong!
predictable that the small brained partisans fall back on the same tired bullshit when they are questioned
fuck labour fuck brown and fuck you for lazy incorrect smearing
christ knows why you have a stick up your arse about the nurses as it isn’t them most likely to be on strike in the first place
if there are cuts in the NHS it will be the admin and doctors who get it first because they wrangled an over generous pay deal from Blunkett
more to the point, what isn’t ring fenced ?
teachers will be far more likely to get their pay slashed and despite your constant fallback on conspiracy whoever gets their pay or hours slashed will probably strike
so even the Police might too and so might any sector public or private that pushes their workforce too far as B.A. proves
You’re 100% wrong in blaming those at the front line for the mistakes of Brown and the Bankers in wrecking the economy
and walk passed dying boys needing water
nutter
UK Resident and Proud @ 1:54
I’ve said this many times before, and on the whole I have to agree with you.
I have to disagree with you on one (what I consider to be) very important point.
The police, nor the armed forces will get a pay cut. As soon as the gobshites in charge of UNITE, TGWU, UNISON and the NUT start to make a lot, and I mean a lot of noise about preparing for month-long strikes the Old Bill and the Armed Forces WILL get a payrise.
Thatcher bribed the Police with a massive payrise in preparation for striking and rioting. Whomever is in power after June will have to do the same. They’re going to need the riot shields and CS gas again.
evil fucking nurses!!!!
That’s why they’re being teed-up and kept in reserve. Very hard for the (Tory) government to knock back the nurses once they’re out screeching for more money. The poor selfless little angels. Selflessly working 9-5 every day with only six weeks holiday the poor darlings.
Giving so generously of themselves. Underpaid, over-worked. The poor darlings.
That’s why the nurses will be marching. Meanwhile one million other bed-wetters, box-tickers and bastards recruited by Brown will be lurking in the shadows rubbing their hands and piggy-backing on any payrises ‘won’ during the nurses pay disputes.
Oh for goodness sake, why are all the Tory trolls such dim hypocrites.
You act surprised that a union would give money to the Labour party when the Labour party is an organisation based on working people organising themselves into…..
UNIONS.
FFS if this is the best the Tories can come up with you are surely doomed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in the general election.
Yes, it is dodgy that union give money to Gordon Brown and Gordon Brown gives money to the unions but that is the nature of Gordon Brown, he is a dishonest thief, what do you expect?
And it is no different from the Tories lobbying on behalf of arms companies and then receiving financial donations from the bombs and bullets manufacturers.
Pot calling kettle black springs to mind.
Very weak propaganda Tory trolls, thin gruel indeed.
Must do better.
Hope you don’t need an enema in the near future, but back to the point, hopefully 16% of the arsewipe pen-wrestlers in my hospital are heading for the dole. Still not enough needs to be at least 50%
If only these evil nurses were as selfless and hardworking as the competent underpaid Bonus pigging taxpayer scrounging Banksters ?
The public love them.
Don’t they?
I’m getting a bit of distraction here about the bankers and one thing and another but nobody is denying that I’m 100% right.
The nurses will be used by Labour/Unions (once the nailed on inflation is completely out of control) to cause strikes and disruption on a scale unseen since the 1970s.
This is Labour’s legacy. A totally fucked economy plus the mechanism already in place to extort maximum political advantage for Labour when the shit inevitably hits the fan.
Two more decades (minimum) of total economic breakdown and industrial strife just because Brown was economically incompetent.
The evil c*nts.
you’re wrong and it was self evident
smearing hundreds of thousands of nurses as evil fucking bastards simply because you are an idealogue with tunnel vision and your own scatty interpretation of what they do and why and what they should get paid is nonsense
strikes will happen if they think their pay and hours get slashed unfairly
that’s the reality
while bailing out the Bankers and giving them huge bonuses while the MP’s also give themselves hefty pay rises is, what’s the word.. fucking moronic in a recession and will hardly be forgotten by the public
Dave said he would ring fence the NHS anyway
course he might be talking shit but there have been strikes since 97 and Dave better get used to the idea of dealing with them as he doesn’t get a free pass to ignore them any more than Brown does
The ‘evil fucking bastards’ refers to Brown and the unions for setting this up.
Obviously. Although I don’t doubt that will be the tactic used by the evil fucking bastards whenever anybody tries to point out what the evil fucking bastards are up to.
That is why the nurses will be used to destroy the Tories and in an act of spectacular collateral damage, what remains of the UK economy and our currency. Because any objection to the nurses being used in the destruction of the UK economy will be wilfully misinterpreted as an attack on the nurses as opposed to an attack on the evil fuckers who are pushing their buttons.
I’m 100% right. And you know it.
Even the Labour MPs accepting a pay-rise when they could have had a vote and decided against it was deliberate act to make it difficult/impossible for the incoming Tory government to implement a public pay-freeze.
The nurses ‘whippers-in’ will simply point out the two-faced MPs voting themselves a payrise but denying the poor nurses [cue footage of sainted ones holding somebodies hands at the bedside] a ‘fair days pay for a fair days work’.
Labour is deliberately setting up the post-election economic situation for a complete economic and social meltdown. No stone is being left unturned, no well unpoisoned in Brown’s economic scorched earth.
What’s All the Fuss About? – You miss the point,which is unsurprising as your post is mainly invective. Those who paid their subscriptions may not have chosen to see UNITE funding any political party to the extent they do,or to be so involved in their election campaign. Hardly poor propaganda when the last time Labour were ruled by the unions the dead went unburied,the lights went out and the IMF dropped by.
Hardly democratic is it -buying influence? but of course UNITE is not Ashcroft,so that’s ok.
Hypocrite
“nurses in uniform, their faces contorted with spite and bile, shrieking into the TV cameras about ‘a fair days pay for a fair days work’.”
your words, so obviously ? right ? wrong!
predictable that the small brained partisans fall back on the same tired bullshit when they are questioned
fuck labour fuck brown and fuck you for lazy incorrect smearing
christ knows why you have a stick up your arse about the nurses as it isn’t them most likely to be on strike in the first place
if there are cuts in the NHS it will be the admin and doctors who get it first because they wrangled an over generous pay deal from Blunkett
more to the point, what isn’t ring fenced ?
teachers will be far more likely to get their pay slashed and despite your constant fallback on conspiracy whoever gets their pay or hours slashed will probably strike
so even the Police might too and so might any sector public or private that pushes their workforce too far as B.A. proves
You’re 100% wrong in blaming those at the front line for the mistakes of Brown and the Bankers in wrecking the Economy
the unions & nondoms should stop funding Political Parties immediately
simple as that
Oh FFS. I’m not blaming the nurses for Brown destroying the UK economy. I’m just saying that they will have their buttons pressed in the same way as the BA cabin staff are having their buttons pushed by the fucking union.
They won’t even realise they’re being manipulated. In the same way that the BA cabin crew cannot get it into their fucking heads that they really are already the best paid cabin crew in the world so it’s hardly surprising that a company losing 300 million quid a year might be looking to save a bit of money in that direction. Just like the BL workers couldn’t seem to get it into their head that the reason they weren’t being paid as much as Ford workers was because they were producing 50% less cars per head. Naaaah. Who cares about that trivial fact. We want the same pay as the Ford boys.
How did the BL workers benefit from having their buttons pushed by jackass unions building completely unreasonable arguments to get them striking. Purely as a mechanism to bring down the government? They didn’t. And neither will the BA cabin crew achieve anything but a P45 for all at BA.
Nobody gives a fuck amongst the general public if BA go on strike. Or the council workers. Or the teachers. But the general public do care about the nurses. So the nurses will be goaded into strike by the unions. To soften up the Tory government to the point where they capitulate. And then the unions will have the rest of the fuckers out on strike piggy-backing on the nurses ‘victory’.
I personally guarantee it. The first big strikes of the Tory government will be the nurses. They will be goaded into massive pay-rise claims by the unions then they will be lied to by unions and Labour about how they’re all going to be fired and then they’ll be ballotted based on those lies. And then they’ll be on strike. And they’ll be whipped into a frenzy by union speech-making and they will be on TV marching, their faces twisted in bile and hatred, because the unions will push every button at their disposal to make it happen and Labour will be cheering them every step of the way.
It will be the nurses. Guaranteed. They’ll be used by the unions to run interference for the other one million bedwetters, box-tickers and bastards hired by Brown since 2002.
I fucking well guarantee it.
You remember that when the nurses are marching through Whitehall in the next 18 months.
1. If the tories have any sense, they will ruthlessly target the wasters in the public sector, protecting the front line. Otherwise, those at the top will immediately transfer the cuts to the front line to generate the protests that jgm2 describes. But they haven’t any sense, so…
2. If any part of the public sector wants to strike – magic ! Sack the fuckers. Those that do anything useful can be reemployed by private sector providers. And the strikers can lose their pension rights, as a bonus. It’s a win,win,win solution.
I like a bit of whizz. And I know the whizz dealer very well, I sit in his house while lots of nurses come for it. do a fucking drugs check on them and see.
I hope they do get goaded into asking for a big payrise jgm2, then the public will see them as unreasonable and not support their cause- hopefully.
Maybe the Tories should incorporate the recent looney left idea for people to only work 22 hours per week, seriously, if any of the public sector demand more pay, the Tory government should say, ‘we like your ideas for job sharing, we can start with the public sector, you only have to work 22 hours per week, that will be for 22 hours pay right, thought not, get back to ferking work then’!!
this isn’t the 70′s or 80′s any more
the unions thankfully do not have the same power or mad egomaniacs like Scargill who think they are a shadow government
by all means blame everything on the unions if it makes you feel better but it is pretty irrelevant since the public is well aware of the effects of the recession since they are living through it
B.A. will have to work it out with their workers and unions and come to an agreement, hardly communist thinking to admit the obvious
nurses are people not puppets and have their own say in whether to strike just like any other sector of the economy
I’ll take you up on your guarantee as there will be probably be many strikes to come if the cuts are brutal and the nurses will not be the first if they do strike at all
it’s the worst recession in decades, what did you think would happen?
if Brown were to win he would be dealing with them too, he won’t, but he still desperately wants to be PM for another 5 years and will keep trying until he is finally booted out of Downing Street this year
the unions thankfully do not have the same power or mad egomaniacs like Scargill who think they are a shadow government
Jesus Christ. You might want to read what this thread started with. The eight million quid Unite are paying Labour to parachute Unite officials and placemen into safe seats. Apparently they now control more than 100 Labour MPs.
Have you ever heard Bob Crow speak? Full on 1970′s throwback. ‘Comrades…..’.
I’m serious. These fuckers are itching for revenge on Thatcher. To hell with the fact she’s been out of power for 20 years. To hell with the fact her mind is gone walkabout. They want their revenge.
I shit you not.
And the BA cabin crew and management won’t ‘work it out’. Because the BA cabin crew are being poisoned by their Unite leaders. They are being used as suicide troops. Or, more likely, to engineer a ‘settlement’ overseen by the Maximum Imbecile.
Surely you don’t think that this economic destruction of the past two years has been pure fluke? We could have addressed Brown’s bust two years ago but instead he has wilfully squandered 300bn quid with the promise of 300bn quid more purely to pretend that the public sector will feel no pain [vote Labour]. When the grown-up thing to do was share the pain back in 2008 instead of letting the private sector take the full hit (‘cos they’re not unionised and so won’t grumble) and protect the public service (‘cos their members pay you back-handers).
Knowing that the pain of taking the adult choices is only being deferred onto your political enemies.
And the 500bn quid unnecessary cost (20K for each taxpayer) is going to be some other fuckers problem.
The evil fucking bastards.
like I said, knock yourself out if ranting at the unions makes you feel better, hell, I like nostalgia as much as the next man but I’ll draw the line at mullet hairdo’s, Duran Duran and Rubiks cubes
your delightful conspiracy obsessed view of the world would be a trifle more convincing if we didn’t all know that Brown’s criminal neglect in not regulating the Bankers and their subsequent self inflicted meltdown of the economy is the reason we are all in the shit
and the public aren’t about to forget it or the fact that there hasn’t been the usual mass unemployment for one because most of the economy has had to negotiate pay & hour cuts already in order to save thier jobs
Brown still wants to win this and has delayed all the hard choices till after May but it will do him no good, the economy is Cameron’s after that to do as he sees fit, he can try and smash whats left of the unions or slash the NHS or raise taxes or any number of things, but that’s up to him
sympathy from the public is always in very short supply in a recession
Oi! It’s General Melchett to you.
Unite want to destroy BA it was Maggies favourite it`s that simple
If the public were anything like me they will be muttering ‘fuck the nurses’ under their collective breaths. You can guarantee that any nurse that indulges in politically-motivated behaviour is a shyster. Period.
CCHQ launches a poster campaign focusing on Unite’s hold over Gordon Brown and Labour. Charlie Whelan is now looking like a liability to Brown.
http://whogoeshome.co.uk/?p=485
Puts Ashcroft’s efforts into perspective, doesn’t it!
Did Ashcroft gag Gobby Mandelarse with a libel writ?
Only if he stuffed it in his mouth.
What are you insinuating about Ashcroft?
He has got a proper missus, not a beard, hasn’t he?
What are you insinuating about Lord Cashcroft ?
And what does it have to do with payments to Iain Dale ?
Is Ian Dale a beard or has he even got one?
I believe he has got a beard – its on his wife.
OT
CPS in trouble
Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMcpsi) found some prosecutors neglected their core duties of bringing criminals before courts.
Crown court results in London were “substantially worse” than the national average, the report said.
Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer said he was aware that CPS London needed to perform better.
He said: “I am fully aware that CPS London needs to perform much better than it does now and making that happen is a process which I will be closely involved with.”
I can hear Baroness Uddin laughing from here
Boris will swing into action and sort it all out
I meant the writ.
That isn’t wot you wrote!
I would love to see Ashcroft bankrupt Mandleson.
Mandleson is a poor bully. Smack him hard and he will cry like fuck.
I hope Ashcroft has retained all the best libal lawyers in town…
Like Jimmy “Goldenballs” Goldsmith when he attacked Private Eye years ago
He had the field wide open
And Ashcroft could make millions out of the foaming libel pouring out of the faces of smearing, delusional ZanuLabour…
Good luck Lord Ashcroft !
Cashcroft rarely picks on people his own size. The Economist published a piece he didn’t like and he did nothing but a had a blog closed down for reprinting it. His lawsuit against the Indo is about as likely to get to trial as one of Guido’s.
11 million squids would buy a lot of trolly dollies.
I thought they gave it away for free!
And as pointed out previously, the scam of laundering taxpayers money back to labour party coffers through the union ‘modernisation’ grant , deserves to land the perpetrators in jail.
Hopefully its something that the press will pick up and run with. Along with lord paul and his business wrecking re-locations to India.
Nulab, utterly hypocritical cnuts.
To the press this is not a story, now Lord Ashcroft is always a story
The Tories should be making this the story. Their scripted response to Unites income is not working, unless ‘modernisation funds’ are still dry powder
People will vote for me because I am not Brown.
I just have to sit here and wait. While I wait, I’ve drawn up some all-female ethnic minority selection lists. People want more political correctness.
I have a windmill on my mansion. Do you have one on yours?
Ere let’s not forget that fine set up at Corus which has devastated Teeside by it’s Labour donor owners TATA in cahoots with Pachuri and the climate change scamsters IPCC who have now pissed off with millions in Carbon Credits (utter diabolical scam) to some other location to set up another blast furnace to produce steel they had previously claimed there was no demand for.
I cannot understand why this has not been given more hammering by the press. Imagine if the Tories had done such a thing.
The MSM needs to take a reality check…and urgently.
The scum of Teeside vote Labour, who gives a fuck if they are made jobless and homeless by their own theiving donors and climate hoaxers.
The geordies have fucked Britain by voting Labour in all these years, I have been fucked and almost everyone I know has been fucked by Labour.
It’s poetic justice to see these Geordie traitors out of work.
sadly I must agree with all you said. I hope they end up living on the streets in carboard boxes and there houses fall down
70% of the bone idle Geordie bastards are sucking on the state’s teats already!
They can fuck off back to jarra if they ever come marching this way
It’s Teesside cockhead and they don’t all vote Labour just as they don’t all vote Tory in Lundun.
Since when was someone from Teesside a Geordie, you numbskull?
Labour has bought a hell of a lot of votes in the north east but that doesn’t mean that we all deserve that fate that Brown has visited on us.
Now fuck off
I lived and worked on Teeside, in Harlepool, Peterlee and Tyneside, their isn’t a rat’s fart between ‘em – half an hour up and down the A19 the accent and shoddy lazy mentality is the same. Are you tryng to say the people of Edgbaston and Sutton Coldfield are not Brummies. You are a`prize tosser’ Dr Dick… Mick.. whatever you KGB trolls are calling yourselves today.
Blog off!
Maggie done all wu jobs like and wu bairns is caad. Ah diven naa what the future holds like – nae jobs so we vote labour like.
jocks with their brains kicked in
True even the thick scots have woken up to the labour scam so no sympathy for anyone who votes for labour and reaps the shitstorm of making themselves poorer and staying stupid.
What an informed opinion you have mate, fantastic, we really should have more like you.
Not true Rodderick.
There are loads of accents in the North East, to say everyone sounds like a Geordie is say everyone South of Watford sounds like a Cockney.
On the voting front, sadly, it’s true, the entire area from South Middlesborough to North Tyneside (through to Durham in the West) is one massive Labour voting block.
But
It’s only Labour because of the old industrial past, Ship Building, mining, steel etc. There’s not much left. Labour have spent an enormous amount of money doing up a lot of areas. This is important. The people who can afford to live in these areas aren’t the core Labour vote. The core Labour vote live elsewhere and no amount of spin will cover up the empty shop fronts and wastelands Labour have left.
If parts of this area don’t start falling to other parties within the next generation (if not this election) I’d be really surprised.
ps I lived in this area for over 40 years, I don’t know anyone who’s voting Labour this time around.
Thick Scots?? Mmm now let me see, did you phone your mummy last night, or maybe watch some tv? or what about the last time you went to the doctors..did you need any penicillin, what about the father of modern economics, but then you might not know who that is?? I would suggest that you are probably thicker than the average Scot.
Isn’t it in Whitley Bay that the council have PAID an artist to produce 3-D shop front infills so that the high street looks a bit less like a fucking Siberian gulag scene and makes the infestants feel better?
Good use of my money that is!
D L George – I also live in the north east and I agree that there must surely come a point when the residents of places such as Hartlepool, Seaham, Easington etc wake up to the fact that things have gone backwards for them under Labour.
Against that of course is the huge number of public sector workers whose votes are bought and paid for and the hard core morons who would never, ever, vote for anyone other than Labour.
geordie yup
mup
geordie yupyit
mupnoo
geordie yup
mup
geordie yupyit
mupnoo
My Dear Slyme. The North Riding of Yorkshire or the County of North Yorkshire to be correct. I am a tad surprised that you would wish such a fate upon any of your fellow Countrymen. I should bewary of falling into the them and us mentality A very leftie trait
The world needed more low-carbon steel – and India needs to continue to grow at 9% to look after all its poor.
Neither of the above statements are true.
Both statements are true comrade. I am working hard to ensure the lie of climate change puts paid to British jobs for British workers.
India’s poor are of deep concern too. We need to keep giving an emergent superpower overseas aid so we can feed their poor whilst they don’t give a flying fuck.
My father was a Marxist and I want to be one too.
The MSM are in the recycling business now. They merely recycle press releases from corporatists.
the MSN are owned by them
Indeed; I believe its about the amount that Branson has paid out to settle harrassment claims against him.
It buys Liebour Troll eDollies.
very good! ….yer coats on the pavement outside
Now this is more like it!
Heh heh
Hello?
Sorry – the line from Cali is a bit dodgy.
What’s the street value of 7 cardboard cutout Charlies?
Look closely – there are 8!
You obviously know how New Labour operates mate.
There are 8 indeed. It’s funny that the bags look like dirty laundy innit?
I can only count seven bags. Have they “redistributed” one to Gordon’s exercise book fund?
I know nothing about what you are talking about.
You can see only 7 bags but there are 8 Charlies. You can just see the tip of one to the left of the central Charlie.
I presume that he would not come to the court of his master without bearing tribute so it’s afair bet that there’s 8 bags in all.
Luvvly Laundered Jubbly!
The hard part is spotting which one is the button-busting Old Holborn with them bags obscuring the view.
fuck off
Bags of Charlie ?
where ?
You mean theres more than one George Osborne?
Just goes to show “new” liebour is the best government money can buy. Union cash, open floodgates for muslim immigrants, peerages for those on message whilst it suits them, Britains Biggest Cokeusers a mere puppet controlled from no 10…
Not a straight vote amongst them, but its keeping them in and that’s all that matters.
I was with you for most of the rant but I take issue with their control of Britains biggest cokeusers; George is definitely in Lord Ashcrofts pocket (in all ways).
Britains Biggest Cokeusers is code for the BBC.
I take issue with the idea that the BBC is run by the Government or is in anyway entangled with the labour party. I grant that it DOES look like it from their behaviour, but the reality is slightly different.
The reality is that the BBC and Labour and the Tories are all puppets of a global elite and they all want to implement the same agenda. The labour puppet is the more blatant of the two parties and is naturally more aligned to that agenda, so the BBC (who is filled with staff who are zealous cultists) support labour’s spin more than the tory spin.
However, IF they got an independent minded person leading labour who wanted out of the EU, the BBC would savage them, like they did Michael foot when he campaigned in 1993 to withdraw from the then E.E.C.
It is only after his death that the Marxists in the BBC could acknowledge his independence and report on him in a positive light. They want a global Marxist state. Foot’s localised version was dangerous, for it would have shone a beacon on the massive flaws inerrant in his socialist ideology, and that would have put people off the Global Marxism project.
The BBC and Labour are, (independent of each other), more willingly embracing the global Marxist project and so appear to be one controlling the other. They are actually independently heading towards the same goal. The top of the Conservative party are supporting the same project, but it is more difficult for them to dress Marxism up as conservatism to fool their supporters, hence why the BBC love giving them a kicking. the BBC will attack anything that does not resonate with the global Marxism project. Anything that rewards individuality, self reliance, smaller state, lower taxes, independence for any state outside of a pan-national block.
For example, the BBC is more than happy for The SNP to pursue independence from the UK, as this weakens the UK as a nation state and makes the EU stronger by comparison, but the SNP would be annihilated in the Scottish media, IF it pursued independence from the EU too.
The Scottish Media are in the pocket of Scottish Labour who hate the SNP.
Purcell’s complete absence is proof positive of that
Fuck offa
twat
Vote Labour! Vote Brown!
You’ve forgotten the Scottish drugs squad who effectively tipped off a self-confessed coke addict and allowed him to skip the country, Purcell would have had visa problems and not escaped justice otherwise.
From top to toe, east to west, north to south, British authorities are corrupt.
anyone who needs to see what is really going on just needs to read ‘manufacturing consent’ by noam chomsky. devastating analysis of the interconnections of power and media.
noam’s a carpet chomping foaming at the mouth nut in his answers to the world’s problems imho, but his description of the realities of power is spot on.
Indeed; I made sure that kangaroo molesting shit Murdoch knew who was boss back in ’99.
Still think the BA strike is being stage managed for Brown to make an 11th hour resolly ushan.
Tell them where to stick it Walsh.
Get a gut feeling that the UK is finally seeing through all the lies
I’m up for it.
And I certainly am too, big boy!
The Daily Mash had it nailed yesterday
Would you believe it ??
CCHQ) has received the honour of being named in the Sunday Times 75 Best Places to Work in the Political Sector list.
CCHQ was placed at number 1. This year the prestigious list has been derived from entries of 207 organisations. In total over 45,000 employee opinions have been surveyed, and an evaluation of each organisation’s key statistics, processes and policies has been carried out
You would have thought that Al JaBeeBa would have mobilised the troops to make sure they won that one.
Oh, sorry, they are non-political, aren’t they!
No going back to grab and throw.
The Tories aren’t making enough of the money-laundering whereby the Labour government gives the unions 10 million quid for ‘political reform’ and then the union gives the Labour government 10 million quid back and gets to parachute in its placemen into safe seats.
This isn’t a Labour government at all. This is a KGB government which is why they’ve pissed away all the money and set the UK on the road to bank*upcy.
Which is why Labour apologists are so desperate to re-write history and proclaim it’s because Nu-Labour was actually Tory-lite.
No its a Zimbabwe Government with Uncle Gordo and ZaNuLabour
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth. Those to whom the system brings windfalls, beyond their deserts and even beyond their expectations or desires, become ‘profiteers,’ who are the object of the hatred of the bourgeoisie, whom the inflationism has impoverished, not less than of the proletariat. As the inflation proceeds and the real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from month to month, all permanent relations between debtors and creditors, which form the ultimate foundation of capitalism, become so utterly disordered as to be almost meaningless; and the process of wealth-getting degenerates into a gamble and a lottery.
Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.
I am getting on with the job of ruining England and the Capitalist system.
It’s the right thing to do.
The disruption in our economic systems was also a priority of our turbanned relative, Alchy Aida
Gives back 11 mil and as Micawber would say, “result Miseria my dear”.
“result Wisteria my dear”.
and a Potemkin economy.
Jimmy Hoffa is still advising the Labour Party it seems.
Nah, Jimmy is a structural part of the Giants Stadium and has been for years. You can smell him when the wind is just right (or that may be the Bronx, come to think of it).
10 million – not very ambitious is it?
I’ve never met Charlie Whelan. I don’t know who he is. I was out of the country when he did whatever it is you’re alleging he did. I have no idea what you’re talking about. I don’t know Unite and have never heard of them. All these allegations are false and I have no knowledge of them.
And I prefer women to men, or that’s what I told Woman’s Hour. Nothink like sitting round the TV with a can of lager watching Match of the Day with a group of women.
Charlie has been frozen out.
Charlie started in America he is a global Charlie
I take full responsibility and will sack the person responsible.
this is who I am
Now we want to see a cut out of Brown handing over a bag of dosh labelled ‘Union Modernisation Fund’ to Whelan
That photo going viral could be the tipping point. Get on with it London conspirators
OT
Even when the BBC report a good poll for the Tories, they make sure Labour get the best figures. Watch Paxo in this bbciplayer clip say that Labour are on 41% and the Tories on 31% in the latest Guardian poll, when it should have been the reverse: (already set at about 46.04). Unfuckingbelievable.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00rkfhy/Newsnight_15_03_2010/
Sorry that should be 40%/31%. Even I’m doing it now.
I think I’ve got a touch of the Newsnights, it happens about 45.43 in.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00rkfhy/Newsnight_15_03_2010/
Never mind Krusty, we got the picture. Don’t expect an apology though.
I saw it last night and at the time thought it was a genuine mis-speak. Its uncanny how they just always put their foot in it. On the other hand though it was probably wishful thinking on his part. How I wish there was a another Robin Day out there he always came across as unbias and gave both sides equal measure of tough questions.
Unlike Humpty and Numpty’s differing treatment of ZaNuLieBor and the Tories.
Obsequious for the first and hectoring for the second!
Just like the 0800 Radio 4 news this morning deliberately mixing up McRuin’s “deficit” with the “debt” pretending they are interchangeable terms and by extension that the absurdly unambitious target of halving the deficit in 4 years is the “right thing to do”.
This happens of course thanks to Liebour’s deliberate innumeracy and illiteracy programme masquerading as edukashun.
SkyNews also calling 178 billion a debt instead of a deficit – Media wankers, all dim tossers the lot of ‘em.
I heard that interview….. with Byrne wriggling and trying to say he didn’t say there would be no tax increases after a general election a few days ago. So did the interviewer pin him to the floor………… Nope, he was much more interested in trying to get Ken Clarke to talk about “Tory cuts”
And Brian Waldon, He was known pro-labour, as he had been a labour MP, but his interviewing was just as tough on both sides. And he knew the inside tricks from being on the other side of the fence, as it were.
There were stories of new ministers physically throwing up before being interviewed by him. He was quiet and gentle, but then he set ingenious traps for minister’s to lead themselves into.
Did he interview Prescott a lot then?
Waldon was pretty good – good line in theme tunes, too
£11 million quid from thousands of individual trade union members who voted to make the payment; millions from oner shifty bugger who wants to direct what we do from the Caribbean. Personally, I think union members are mad to give money to the third party of capitalism, but there you are.
Did they have a referendum to donate £11m to Brown? I fucking doubt it.
You can opt out if you want to. But do bear in mind that they know where you live…
£10mn for “modernisation of the unions” however strikes me as one cost cut that would be easy to make.
Funny how they never mention this though when they ask you to join.
You’ve lost your “Street”, Cato. Under pressure in the Bunker?
at least he isn’t paid by Ashcroft per word
So what?
The Trolls are busy this morning. Had a bit of a kicking from Uncle Alistair and that nice Mr Whelan have we?
said the lickspittle troll
Morning, TaT. Got your bets on for the hung parliament, yet?
Wish the Trolls would come out in sympathy with the Trolly Dollies.
But it seems they’ve had their arses kicked this morning to get arse kicking.
has Cashcroft given you a reaming for your piss-poor trolling Doc?
you won’t earn enough money to buy an inflatable wife unless you improve your feeble level of trolling
fuck off titfer and get blogging
Just got hit on the back of the head by an effing mobile. I smacked him in the mouth though – so should be an interesting PMQs.
Vote Brown and Vote Labour!
you all know I will
They forgot….
To UNITE, 11 Million extorted from taxpayers for a “union modernisation”* fund
The Labour Party is funded by carousel fraud.
*Oxymoron.
What goes around comes around.
Apparently the cabin crew voted to donate this to the Labour Party. Aye, they did.
And pigs might fly Club Class.
Bruin’s record on strikes is getting interesting.
Very few people realise that the civil servants went on strike last week as clearly not doing a non-job would go totally unnoticed, but it is a start. Since these things also go unreported it’s hard to know when they are on, why there might be one right now and our councils are struggling to get by without their ethnic harmonisation officers for a day – who knows?
The economy is really hurting now real nappies are uncoordinated.
The BBC reported it…
For less than 10 seconds (genuine) in the middle of lots of less important stories that were given several minutes.
I think they also mentioned it on News 24 in the middle of the afternoon (When the viewers are only in double figures)
But you’re absolutely right, MSM are treating this as a non story.
This is from the Unions site…
National action now set for budget day
NEC switches date for national strike action from 19 March to 24 March to put maximum pressure on the government to come to an agreement on the CSCS.
http://www.pcs.org.uk/
But pigs do fly club my dear
toughing for Britain. It’s the right thing to do
Are you sure this isn’t Charlies daily delivery to the BBC?
Normally I fly via Luxemburg.
Hee Haw
I feel much more comfortable around women. They’re much more easy to bully and intimidate than men. Just ask my secretary.
Is that the one with the black eye, or the one removing nokia shards from their skin?
Gorgon is the one for us.
His strong arms . ..
His manly voice . . .
His persuasive speeches . . .
His deep set eyes that want to make us drown in them m m . . . .
Oh . . .oh . . . oh . . .
let us fall into raptures clutching each other
‘n that
my husband, my weirdo…
I did jolly super by coming out
to support Dave
Yes, let’s pretend she’s posh, because that would be a terrible crime.
Labour: Don’t judge people by their background, unless they are those nasty nasty toffs. And even if they’re not, they should be or might be, and that’s good enough.
Labour means not letting the truth get in the way of a nice bit of class war.
Class war? Call it like it is, hate crime. It is prejudice pure and simple.
Labour love discrimination based on background, so long as it is discriminating against any traditional British background.
These are terrible times to live in for the well to do.
What kind of society thinks the Bankers are incompetent money grubbing scumbags ?
This one.
and attacking anyone poor by stereotyping and smearing them all as work-shy chavs isn’t class warfare, hate crime or prejudice is it?
stupid hypocrites
Twits, NO! We are attacking their attitude and their behaviour, NOT their background you fuckwit!
There a loads of decent hard working people who have come from “sink” council estates and have not given in to the dependency culture.
Attack the behaviour of the individual if it merits it, NOT their background.
> There a loads of decent hard working people who have come from “sink” council estates and have not given in to the dependency culture.
I hear that all the time here
‘Attack the behaviour of the individual if it merits it, NOT their background’.
Just about sums it up for me.
Class hate eminates from the socialists towards the upper-classes only, I have witnessed so much of it. I have never seen it go the other way, though sometimes empathy and understanding of the poor can be miss-read as being condescending.
Labour are such honkies too.
Remember Tony Blair on Colin Powell? “Only in America can a poor black man rise to be Secretary of State…”
Colin Powell’s from Jamaica where his family ran a very prosperous bakery business from the 1940s until the present day – in no way could they be described as poor.
> though sometimes empathy and understanding of the poor
I see that all the time here too
like fuck
try reading this blog once in a while and you might see the backgrounds of vast swathes of the poor living in Britain is attacked and stereotyped far more than the few defenseless shadow cabinet members cruelly and heartlessly mocked for their out of touch attitudes and behaviour
hearing the British poor mocked by expats is also fun
they live here, expats are Political tourists
That’s a very big chip you’re carrying there Lenny.
I’m not the one whining and wailing about the hateful terrible injustice of a few shadow cabinet members being mocked for their attitudes behaviour and backgrounds Ned
I think we all know who the overly sensitive and defensive ones are here
Hey Pprincess
Do bugger off back to Tuscany
We don’t want toffs like you around
Me and my bunch of hoodies are going to sort out Britain all by ourselves
let me hug you hoodie
Hahaha nice one. Labour’s so stupid they cannot rustle together a row of Cashcrofts to do the same at CCHQ.
A Spokesperson for No 10 Drowning (in Debt) Street has released the following statement:
Following advice from the EUSSR Politburo the GLORIOUS and BELOVED LEADER has announced that the forthcoming ELECTION(S) will be held as many times as necessary to ensure the CORRECT RESULT.
This will reassure the GLORIOUS and BELOVED LEADER that the sheeple LOVE HIM.
That is all.
Now get on with your work – if you have any (NOTE: that does not include high ranking NHS, Local Authority and Civil Service staffs, – also QUANGOs, – who may continue drinking coffee and talking twaddle during their full day of (sometimes) double-booked meetings)
ho and indeed ho
that was almost nearly funny
thats what they did with the Euro referendum though…well those that were given one of course
“ZaNew Labour are to rush through emergency legislation which will implement the Alternative Vote electoral system before the election on May 6. Mr Brown denies he’s terrified of losing the election and is trying to rig it by pushing through AV.”
Link?
We have a cunning plan . . . to ensure the correct result.
Watch out for breaking news . .
Actually
The whole stack of cards is going to collapse in Britain long before Bottler Brown decides to call an Election
It will give ZanuLabour time to elect Hoodie Whelan as Leader…
We is the working class you know…
nay nay nay neigh
OT
Cameron Casts Himself as Obama – Political Scrapbook
0bama’s a political DISASTER. Is Cameron REALLY this stupid?
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/03/14/Centrists-to-Obama-Dont-campaign-for-us/UPI-90821268581648/
He got elected didn’t he? Result.
dave won’t
Yeah, tell us how much of your own money you’ve put on it then, tosser. It should be money for old rope eh?
Christ on a bike. Does no-one have the wit to say ‘stop, this is bollocks, Dave?’
It’s all going splendidly!
But Obama is a Marxist.
Doesn’t Cameron realise that by copying Obama that he is telling us all that he is turning the Conservative party into a Marxist organisation?
Oh Wait….
That is what I have been telling everybody for a very very long time.
Actually Omaha Beach does not know the time of day himself
He is a pawn in the hands of dangerous men though…
You are right about Obama being utterly controlled. One wrong move from Obama and his backers will drown him with the things they hold on him.
One wonders if Cameron is as niave as he looks and sounds, or if someone has something on him, that means he is effectively a pawn too.
Obama’s a pawn in the hands of dangerous men?
Righto, What on Earth do they think Bush was then?
er. an idiot
he wasn’t even that bright
Update for Mr Ned.
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2010/03/obama-file-100-obamas-faith-adviser-jim.html
Scary shit, Obama has surrounded himself, by choice, by neo communists, hard core socialist`s, fanatical green`s and truther zombies.
Even scarier for us is the fact that Cameron wants to emulate this clown and dress up in the same “change” mantra and use that, as a reason to jettison conservatism and embrace the “third way” politics, that the Bliar / Bruin junta, rode into town on.
I thought so
The Tory Party is the Black and White Mistrel Show
di boom di di boom…
Are Gordon and Whelan smart enough to engineer the whole BA strike row just so that Gordon can oppose the strike and distance himself from Unite?
Gordon will go in personally on a white rocking horse charger and sort the whole thing out with the help of Barry Obama, mark my words.
Crash Gordon will soon land on Omaha Beach and tell the world he freed Europe…and defeated UNITE…
Dont’ worry
His illness is reaching titatic proportions of delusion…
Obama beach – you didn’t listen properly to The Great Leader. Gulag time.
Smart…I don’t think so. Sly, devious, duplicitous weasels…yes.
They didn’t expect Willie Walsh to react as he has. Always thought he was a bit of an oddity but her’s to him for taking them on.
At the 11th hour Mong will ride to the rescue. Its all about votes don’t you get it yet. Its fuckall to do with whats good for you me or anyone else. It always has been with this lot
Did you all hear the horribly emotionless and robotic way he spoke about Sarah, saying “I think she’s a great person and I love her very much.” More to the point, why would he need to say that? That’s the third interview recently in which he’s shoehorned in the fact he loves her. Shouldn’t it be a given? I wonder why he and his team feel it necessary for him to constantly remind us he loves his “wife”?
‘He’ used to ‘Love’ me – Prudence.
Look what happened to me.
In a fucking knocking shop now at the beck and call of every tosser, – not just him.
Still, – I generally meet a nicer kind of guy – once their ‘needs’ are met.
Never could undserstand Gorgon – unusual tastes.
Anyway – must go.
He’s only after her body. It’ll end in tears.
Yes, he probably wants to wear her carcass, with his nob tucked between his legs, like a proper lady.
Fab mental image….I’ll be giggling all day Clarise
I always thought McMental was the wife in that relationship!
Who loves you baby?
David Cameron faced a hostile audience of staff and lager louts during a visit to CCHQ today.
The Tory leader was booed as he spoke to around 100 people gathered at CCHQ.
He was forced to defend his party’s policies and pledges as they grilled him about how he would improve the economy if he was voted in to power at the next election
Yeah, that really did happen.
They were angry that the tea machine didn’t have options for Darjeeling and Lapsang Souchong. Once that was sorted, and everyone issued with a cashmere tea-mug cosy, it’s been all lovey-dovey.
Is this the sort of stuff we can expect from your long-promised blog?
Private Eye, eat yer heart out.
I watched that you eejit and it was nothing like you are saying. There was some youth heckling at the back and reading from a bit of paper obviously supplied by Labour HQ as the youth clearly wasn’t up to phrasing such questions and when Cameron batted him about a bit he shut up.
baraboom barabang
I think we’ve found our stupid youth.
and then he was applauded when he left I noticed.
Charlie wanker.
While Her Canal
Am I correct in thinking that Charlie Whelan is an ex public school boy who has had “un-elocution” lessons to get rid of his posh accent?
He is not only a class traitor; in this strike he personally has nothing to lose, but his Union members do.
The Union members are the cannon fodder who will be shot while “Big Boy” Charlie plays political games.
Charlie’s agenda is not the same as his Union members, and the sooner they realise it the better. Charlie’s job, Charlie’s pension, Charlie’s house, Charlie’s future is not on the line, but the Union members risk all.
Yup he went to boarding school like many of the Labour Party elite.
Union bosses ain’t what they used to be.
Like Comical Mandy he likes playing with guns on Estates. Scottish Baronial rather then sink variety
Hoodie Whelan doesn’t trust Lord Mandelfairy…
He does trust his “homosexuality” y’see
He is public school and probably got felt up as school !!
ROFL
Charlie is a grand lad who keeps the restaurants of Grantown on Spey and surrounds very busy as he frequently entertains numerous friends and vast quantities of quality wine are consumed. He is involved with spinfish…a salmon and sea trout catching organisation …called after his time with G.Brown…spin doctor and his great love fishing. His partner Phillipa is a very lovelylady who worked at a gay run Hotel in Dulnain Bridge.You would never guess they were sociialists…more like a laird and his lady.I am sure they vote Tory. I met them when on my first visit to Scotland3 years ago I was staying at this gay Hotel …it appears they always were given the best window table and other guests said they were absolutely super and fitted in so well with the posh and gay regulars.
Fairies of the world UNITE
I say
I fink ids the wride fing todo
Actually Janet
You speak so well
I think you should be Zanu’s election spokesperson…
You sound so authentic luv the non-existent working class would come flocking to you…
ROFL
So strange… I was watching some lunchtime turn-out on the BBC today, they were trying to find, then question, some ‘Working Class’ white folk about their emotional propinquity to New Labour’s ‘narrative’. Ye gods, they even bought in Derek Hatton (on screen) as the voice of old, horny-handed Labour. It was *sick*!
What really struck me, after the BBC had courageously sought out and gathered some (middle aged or older) ‘traditional Labour demographic’ specimens in a bingo hall (n.b.), was how threadbare, silenced and crushed by life they all looked, how the Party that they now detest had robbed and betrayed them. Then it struck me. They, and that look , reminded me of Ossies: the old East Germans.
Just a thought. Probably doesn’t mean much.
Just read the final evaluation report on this:
The evaluation was unable to establish a formal, quantitative assessment of
outputs. Indicators were available in relation to some ICT projects, in terms of
increases in web usage and membership participation. Such indicators all
showed improved levels of membership engagement. But, beyond this,
inconsistency in project reportinging and the variable nature of much activity
and outputs, for example in relation to training investments, limits any
aggregate quantification.
Nonetheless, it is evident that the UMF has stimulated an array of innovative
activities and, in some cases, novel outputs within unions. This includes a
wide-ranging research effort across unions and the implementation of new
training programmes, for example around diversity issues, communications
and general management approaches. And new institutions are emerging
through the roles of equality representatives and new partnerships with
employers.
In other words, no-one has a clue what the fuck this has delivered to modernise the unions but trust us,it’s really good.
and there is a qaungo which oversees the fund.
they know it achieved fuck all and are trying to hide it in super shite talk.
This was written by Crash Gordon y’know…
That is why no one understands of what it says…
Titanically delusional…
A frog walks into a bank and asks the guy at the counter, called Paddy Whack, if he can see the manager about getting a loan. Paddy then says ‘Well he’s in meeting at the moment but i can speak to him after. What can you offer as collateral?’
The frog replies ‘well ive got this little ornament here for collateral, and don’t worry about disturbing the manager as he knows my owner, Mick Jagger’
Paddy is completely surprised by this but goes ahead and tells the bank manager about the situation and asks what is the ornament about?
the bank manager replies “Its a nick nack paddy whack, give the frog a loan, his old man’s a Rolling Stone.”
A bit contrived. Try harder.
Or, better, don’t fucking try at all.
Jenny visits the Houses of Parliament and is quite excited because she has clearance to visit her cousing Jack, who has some kind of secret job there. Eventually she finds him at the top of St Stephen’s Tower, with a radio and a huge heraldic trumpet. She asks him about his job.
“Well,” he says “I have to listen to the radio until I hear that Gordon Brown has won a competitive national election for the first time. Then I have to blow the trumpet from the top of the tower, to announce the new socialist dawn.”
“How much do you get for that?”
“Forty pounds a week. They’re exempt from minimum wage legislation here.”
“That’s very poor pay, Jack.”
“True, but it’s a job for life.”
When Jane Garvey asked him if he’d resign if Labour lose the election, a chill went down my spine when he said “No, I’m going to go on because I want a majority, I’m going to go on.” Is this man COMPLETELY barking? How does he plan to go on and get a majority if Labour lose the election? The c/unt has lost the plot, though I dare say he probably lost it years ago.
I love women, me. I met some lovely lasses in Cape Cod.
you should see us in our frocks love, a real girls night out
I see you’re a bit confused. Gideon likes to get high with ho’s, not homos.
i wouldn’t be so sure
I can see that you’re not sure ducky.
ask Mandy and his yachting chums about George and his political ‘cross dressing’ or his friends from the bullingdon days sweetie pie.
I saw it all,and have the films
Barking? The bloke is fucking Upminster.*
*Eight stops past Barking.
Like Uncle Bob he will declare the election invalid as it produced the “wrong” answer.
…as they opened the champagne…
The whole Unite/B.A. strike thing is a sham being stage managed behind the scenes by Labour nasties like Campbell etc. Its being played out so that Gordon can be seen to have saved the day at the last minute. The strikers, BA and the travelling public are mere pawns in their sad game. (do you really think Unite would make big trouble for Gordon a few weeks before the election after all the money they have given and all the influence they have bought)
did you know it was all arranged by Fidel Castro and the ghost of JFK ????
the truth is wibble wibble wibble
So you’re saying that Gordon won’t sort all this out personally before the next election? Hmmm..
The reality is that BASSA is a union inside Unite and the leadership have very little control.
For years the BASSA leaders have been dictating what goes on inside the airline, the management cannot move without getting agreement. It affects the whole operation. The FD crew are fed up with them.
It’s actually been organised so that long-haul flights from Belize are worst affected, preventing Ashcroft from shipping in more oodles of secret folding dosh to continue the unreported part of his campaign.
Unite never have transfer problem with their cash-flow, as it never really leaves its source. There’s just a ghost paper-trail which suggests it flows from the Treasury, through the fatuous Modenisation Fund, then onto Labour HQ. Simples.
O/T Guido on sun talk in a few moments they have an interview with the Publican who Old Holborn helped free from prison last week.
Can listen here http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sun_talk/
on now
Gordon Brown orders urgent investigation into prima facie evidence of bribery, corruption, drug abuse, child abuse, fraud and theft committed by former and current Labour Members of both Houses with the emphasis on The Scottish Labour Party.
and eating babies of course
Nah, Maggie used to do that.
Google Hollie Grieg, the Labour degenerates are all named on the internet. The MSM will not report any of it of course. There is a gagging high court order out on the whole disgusting affair.
Not to mention, the small matter of a seventy year D Notice.
Hysteria indeed, they are shitting themselves that this is about to break big time.
a sheriff officer and a senior policeman IF Gr!eg is right
an investigation is needed but won’t happen with the nutters swarming
those trying to rope in everyone in the UK Government and their dog are the usual conspiracy nutters who will destroy any chance Gr!eg has of an investigation by their crass lunatic exploitation and mad theories
little grey space-aliens are named on the internet along with all those who married them and had their elvis cloned lovechildren
something being on the internet isn’t exactly proof of truth
Liam Fox sorted out the mistakes the BBC twisted I see.
Incoming pigs.
Ashcroft could ride Dave to work every day and still not have the influence on policy that these twats have. It’s not as though Osborne could dole out millions to Ashcroft in his budget, suck his cock and let him fuck an airline up – unlike Labour who can cobble together a million non-jobs to keep their public sector boyfriends happy. Who was that fat cow having a go at Philip Hammond about Ashcroft when Brillo was trying to talk about this stuff?
We are always right and EVERYONE ELSE!!! is wrong. What is it with these fucking mental cases in No 10 that they don’t get ?????????
The government rejected on Tuesday calls by the European Commission for it to do more to cut its ballooning budget deficit
“We think the EU has got the judgement wrong,” Treasury Chief Secretary Liam Byrne told BBC radio
yes, after they dodge a promised referendum to give the EU a voice anyway.
tossers.
Liam”Zippy”Byrne should zip up.
I enjoy the company of bullying, thuggish men, it is the right thing to do.
One of the major problems I have with this is the glee in which Unite seem to announce strikes – some might say even encourage them!
If the Company has no money, IT HAS NO MONEY – sending in the bully boys will not change that.
If people don’t like their jobs, pay, conditions etc they can leave and get another one.
All Companies are having to evolve due to the economic mess GB got us into – instead of inconveniencing the few customers BA have left they should march up to Downing Street – GB first announces he will not be flying on them and then watches as it goes to the wall.
Idiot, Hard line socialists don’t recognise those realities
Jack Dromley obviously doesn’t like his job as he beat an all woman short list to become a prospective MP. I wonder how many people in the borough he hopes to stand for will have had their holidays cancelled?
As if Dromey cares, he is plugged in to the money machine for life now. Safe tribal seat more holidays than in his wildest dreams and who knows, he can pass it on to Dromey Jnr at some stage in the future.
The voters of the socialist hell holes, will never guess that they are the underclass for a reason.
The IMF is coming says:
March 16, 2010 at 9:59 am
Still think the BA strike is being stage managed for Brown to make an 11th hour resolly ushan.
safly yes. I just dont trust em or pur anything past them. The loss of the National airline and hundreds of thousands of holidays makes no difference to them as long as they retain power. Thats wht it is all about. Dont get taken in by the bullshit
NuLiebour are not only a subsidiary of UNITE but they also ‘owned’ now by Sinn Fein/IRA. Why? Follow the latest saga in in Omagh bomb inquiry….Government’s behaviour ‘reprehensible’ over refusal to release the intel about the events leading up to and after the Sinn Fein/IRA slaughter in the town centre. Why? Well because the bomb carrying vehicle was tailed into Omagh by plain clothes Security Force personnel and no action was taken as not to ‘upset the peace process’. Told this by person serving there at the time, more lies and spin coming out on Sky right now.
Who was NI Secretary for State at the time, who was Prime Minister and who was in government? The IRA pals, New Labour. When the truth emreges, some of this New Labour scum will have some explaining to do.
“Hardly anybody died”.
The things that happen in Russia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia
http://tory-politico.com/2010/03/big-media-try-to-shutdown-tory-politico-part-two/#more-5993
This is a test of Gordon Brown and he is ducking that test. You cannot on the one hand condemn the strike while at the same time accepting money from the union orchestrating it.
The Unite union is becoming a party within a party. It is selecting candidates and running the campaign in the marginal seats.
Its political director has open pass to Downing Street and, as this email shows, he is directing Labour’s campaign and boasting about it. This is Labour’s new militant tendency.”
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/call-us-'deplorable'%2c-union-orders-brown-201003152559/
Militant with a very vicious streak
HEADLINES
David Cameron is not ready for the TV election debates – and boy does he know it, the upper class twerp.
Go on Gordon
I’d like to go on Gordon.
Goon Gordon?
I think we should be told
David Cameron won round an initially hostile student audience at Lewisham College last night. There’s no way cowardly Brown would or could attempt anything like that. Everything has to be stage-managed for useless Gordon.
Impressive stuff from Cameron. He’s head and shoulders above Gordon Brown.
and why are not the meeja reporting this
The BBC showed just a brief clip of this film last night: the part where Cameron was heckled by that pony-tailed Labour plant. They omitted Cameron’s response and the rest of the film where Cameron gradually won round the audience.
That’s the BBC for you: shilling like mad for Labour while showing the Tories in a negative light at every opportunity.
Gordon Brown would shit his nappy if he had to address an audience that wasn’t all hand-picked and stage-managed.
That’ll be US$ 500,000 please. No cheques, ( NO British money ) pay direct into one of my Offshore Trusts.
i have given cameron some very serious criticism on here but all credit to him for this display, its very encouraging.
there is no way the moron, without a script or a sympathetic interviewer could produce a performance like this.
Brown would need some pretty powerful ju-ju to go live and alone for 15 rounds wiv Big Dave.
He is the Supreme Bottler and the chances of him facing up to Dave in a live debate are even lower than finding Shergar alive and well.
if it had been broon with the student the student would be getting nokia surgery now
Yeah, Gordon really wowed them on The Daily Politics on Sunday, like wow, what a fucking idiot.
It was fucking enjoyable though.watching mcmental fall apart.
no thanks gordon
#gameoff
I saw that
WTF is a carbon free economy?
No wonder Whelan is dumping THE FALLING POUNDS in Gordo’s lap
Tories lauch new attack on unite. They must be worried. Phone bank at w end shows Tories down from 20% to 8% in marginals.
#gameoff
gane over for you charlie
This is all bollocks unless you can link to the data I’m afraid, so feck off
Charlie is my darling
You used to say that about me, you bitch.
You used to say that about me Dave, you bitch.
At least Cameron, Osborne and the rest of them are normal human beings unlike that bunch of closet-gay, sociopathic, freaks and weirdos that Brown surrounds himself with.
Brown, Mandelson, Byrne, Whelan, Draper, McBride etc. What a bunch of scabby bastards they are.
the shadow cabinet aren’t stuffed full of closet cases at all
and mine
trebles all round
phnar
There’s only one way to settle this. Get Lord Ashcroft in the ring with the UNITE union. FIIIIIIIGGGGGHHHHT
I, for one, welcome our well heeled union overlords.
Dromey first came to public prominence for his involvement in the strike at the Grunwick film processing laboratory in the mid-1970s. The mostly female Asian workforce at Grunwick went on strike to demand that company boss George Ward recognise their union; instead, Ward dismissed the strikers, leading to a year long confrontation involving mass picketing and some violence. The strike was unsuccessful and ended without any concession at all from Grunwick.
Grunwick:When Hattie met Dromey
Not to mention how Jack dashed over to Angola to give his wholehearted support to the Russian/East German-backed Marxist MPLA government then busily putting British citizens in front of firing squads as well as slaughtering hundreds of thosands of their own people. Harridan must like the smell of blood on a man’s breath…
You’re not suggesting that Dromey goes down on her once a month, are you?
Data from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) shows for how much higher BA’s wage costs are than its rivals. The average salary for BA’s 14,000 cabin crew, including bonuses and allowances, is £29,900, compared with £14,400 at Virgin Atlantic and £20,200 at easyJet. BA’s pilots earn an average of £107,600, compared with £89,500 at Virgin and £71,400 at easyJet.
All out bruvvers.
http://uniteba.com/
Over 100K for being a glorified bus driver?
And a maximum 100 hours/month – for ‘safety’. Plus free flights and family holidays?
Fucking easy money.
I am being temp steward on theese plane
Sorry, C+P from the BBC but it really is relevant..
1099. At 09:35am on 16 Mar 2010, zzgrark wrote:
AuntieLeft wrote:
“Why is it every time I see the head of Unite, Tony Woodly, on the TV, the next thing the company who his members are striking goes out of business. Their seems to be a patern here, dont see BBC investingating that. More Communists and Trots trying to destroy OUR country. Even worse some Unite leaders are standing as Labour MP’s this election ! ”
Don’t know if Unite actively set out to destroy companies, but it is true to say that there is some really dodgy stuff going on between Unite and the Labour party.
Charlie Whelan the political director of Unite, is a former spin doctor of Brown’s, and has been recalled to work on Labour’s election campaign.
Unite is Labour’s largest donor, having given £11m in 3 years. But in return, Unite has apparently received public money from the govt in the form of training and other ‘initiatives’.
Unite endorses over 100 Labour MPs, they are affiliated to the union and receive help from Unite with expenses.
Jack Dromey, husband of Harriet Harman & a senior Unite official, has been parachuted as candidate into a safe Labour Birmingham seat for this election. And Harriet Harman was on the selection committee.
Various other past & present officials or members of Unite have been parachuted into safe Labour vacancies for the upcoming election, often over the heads of non-Unite candidates who had been picked by the local Labour party.
Many of these candidates are of a hard-Left tendency, not the modernising Blairite types of the recent past.
So in short, the links between Labour & Unite make the Ashcroft business look like a minor storm in a teacup. Some of the papers are picking up on this. I wonder why the BBC isn’t?
And if we vote Labour in the election, are we in effect voting for a trade union to run the country? In the last election it was ‘vote Blair get Brown’. Is this one going to be ‘vote Brown get Harman’ (with all the weird & wacky stuff that entails)?
Mr Cameron stressed that he supported the BBC
He said: “The BBC is an important national institution. I want to see it prosper and succeed and be a fantastic cultural asset.”
He added that he was a “supporter of the licence fee”
Cameron will rip the bent-BBC a new arsehole when he wins the election.
That’s why Toenails, Marr and the rest are shitting themselves and doing everything they can to get Labour re-elected.
Jeremy Hunt Conservative MP, Shadow Culture Secretary
(He who would be in charge of the Beeb in a minority Cameron Government)
“I believe that the BBC is a great national institution.”
“I am proud of the BBC. I think that most British people think that we are very lucky to have a BBC and most people who aren’t British, if they don’t have a BBC, wish they did have one.”
“I don’t see the BBC as a State broadcaster. “I think people see the BBC as operating at arms length from the government and it’s very important that it should continue to do so and that’s why we’ve said we will protect the BBC charter.”
“I think people see the BBC as operating at arms length from the government and it’s very important that it should continue to do so and that’s why we’ve said we will protect the BBC charter.”
Quite.
In order to protect the Charter it might be necessary to review the performance of the BBC in terms of the public value test.
To protect the Charter, of course.
Not the BBC’s own interpretation of said Charter. Shortcomings, omissions, etc.
shame he didn’t say any of that though
isn’t it?
about the charter
long arm of the gubberment
Dave couldn’t rip a new one in a paper bag
He’ll be too busy trying to stop the eurosceptics forcing a vote on leaving the EU
marr drives a birds car nuff said
They are all disciples of the original Frankfurt School of ‘cultural marxists’ who set out to destroy western society and it’s traditions and institutions from within.
The Frankfurt School has a long tradition of nation wrecking: Adorno, Boas, Freud, Gramsci, Debray, Fanon, and latterly: Blair, Brown, Roche, Straw, Hodge, Darling, Mandelson etc
“And Harriet Harman was on the selection committee.”
That cannot be nepotism as he is her husband
BLOODY BRILLIANT KATE
“So in short, the links between Labour & Unite make the Ashcroft business look like a minor storm in a teacup. Some of the papers are picking up on this. I wonder why the BBC isn’t?”
Just for once, Toady covered it this morning, but it was a bit superficial.
We at the Ministry of Truth would like to point out that responsible Government in Airstrip One has always been funded by the trade unions representing the best interests of hard-working families.
A good take on the situ ashun
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/call-us-'deplorable'%2c-union-orders-brown-201003152559/
bit harsh on north korea
“David Cameron is a snob, a toff, and an upper-class twit, with a pedigree of name brand families across centuries of finance, culture, and social standing, including the Queen’s, who is a several times removed relative.”
Martin Day put it more tactfully, describing Cameron as “born into a distinguished and wealthy family”.
I’m sorry, I am really just the politics of envy.
I am completely prejudiced against wealthy people, like Lord Sainsbury, Lord Paul Shaun Woodward etc.
LYING BROWN DEMOLISHED
“Brown is a compulsive liar, he has no truth in his soul.”
His accompanying comments about “character” appeared to have been scripted by a comedian in need of some fresh material.
“For better or worse, with me what you see is what you get,” said Mr Brown. It is a line so at odds with reality, so manifestly untrue, so utterly ridiculous that one barely knows where to start challenging it.
Was this the same Mr Brown whose shameless evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry was dismissed by Army chiefs as “disingenuous”? The same Mr Brown who unleashed the “forces of hell” on his own chancellor? The same Mr Brown who cannot walk past a national statistic without rebasing its measurement for narrow political advantage (crime, inflation, growth)?
When events defy the Prime Minister’s preferred view of the world, he has a remarkable capacity for applying the Tipp-Ex. History doesn’t haunt him because he either ignores or rewrites it. No British leader in my lifetime has embraced the technique of veracity evasion with greater enthusiasm.
Mr Brown’s most egregious abuse of our credulity, “no more boom and bust”, has been expunged from the script. In its place is a claim that his genius saved us from the ravages of an American-inspired crash. Rather than expiate his sins of profligacy, he seeks to exploit them. Financial disaster is repackaged as a tactical triumph: his triumph.
“I won’t let you down,” Mr Brown promises. Too late, old son, you already have.
OMG!!!
The McMong just sent Beckham a get well note
He’s finished ! doomed !
David Beckham is one of Gordon’s special friends. They are birds of a feather. Both self-obsessed, attention-seeking, narcissists who should have been put out to grass long ago but, like the sociopaths they are, refuse to go quietly and are still here in our faces, even though most of us are sick of the sight of them.
I wonderif AC Milan are looking for a new business manager?
Surely AC DC Milan?
LOL !!!
don’t forget me
There are no depths to which Gorgon wont plunge, just to hopefully pick up a few votes. Which ‘saddo’ in Downing Street bothered to contact the media about Gorgons Get Well note ? Just as sad as the idiot Desborough, who bothered to broadcast it on Sky News.
Dear Bekhum
Sorry yur leg is fucked.
Yours Gordum Brow
Splodge, blot, squiggle
Ms Di Cioccio told viewers: ‘Off the pitch we have seen fascinating photographs of David Beckham in his underpants and seemingly very well endowed and even his wife says that he is well equipped and calls him Golden Balls.
”Well the image may have slipped slightly as he has been replaced in the Armani campaign by a younger footballer, Cristiano Ronaldo, but we wanted to find out if he was as well endowed as the pictures suggest or if they were touched up.’
The programme then cut to the outside of a smart Milan restaurant where Beckham was giving an interview to an American TV network while Ms Di Cioccio could be seen putting on the yellow rubber gloves.
She then worked her way past the camera crew and attempted to touch Beckham’s testicles who jumped back with a start and looked at her stony faced before he security guards stepped in and dragged her away.
As she was led away Ms Di Cioccio called out:’I touched it but it’s small. David you have conned us all. What did you use cotton wool ? It’s all a trick.’
Paddy�s wife goes to the doctors complaining that after ten years of marriage she has never had an orgasm.
The doctor advises her to relax and use a fan to keep herself cool during sex.
Paddy refuses to pay money for a fan and asks his mate if he would mind waving a towel while they made love, but still she didnt orgasm.
The next day she asks Paddy if they could swap over, and so Paddys mate fucks her instead â�� after 20 minutes of the best mind blowing sex she’s ever had, she final has an orgasm.
Proud as punch, Paddy looks at his mate and says �And that, my old son, is how you flap a fucking towel.�
Are you warming up for St. Patricks Day you Hoon ??
Er…..that’s not the real DC you twerp.
all those people going on holiday are upper class twerps (ask martin day)…
so who cares if they are affected……..?
the unions are a collection of people only interested in THEMSELVES using money from the poorest workers to enjoy champagne lifestyles………see derek simpson………
all self serving charlatans with delusions of grandeur.
Let BA workers vote for suicide……..then when they are eventually allowed to sign on they will know what it is like to be undervalued.
keep sending those subs to Unite……….
what you meant to call them was CHAMPAGNE SOCIALISTS!
This will do electoral damage to Labour given Unite’s closeness to the party leadership as well has probably ensuring redundancies for BA staff at the same time……… as the travelling public(especially the lucrative Transatlantic business travellers switch to other carriers who will do their utmost to make sure that they keep them from returning to BA after the strike)The BA workers are truly “lions” led by “donkeys”
Yeah, the ones going on Easter holiday may be the champagne socialists types but these are the types that Labour needs to cling on to. The muppets of Newcastle and Hull can’t afford an Easter skiing holiday or trip to the Caribbean but they’re going to vote Labour regardless.
Brown needs to engineer a ‘feel good’ for the floating voters and ‘fixing’ a strike engineered by his on-site union handler is as good a way as any.
Most of the BBC and other TV top brass and ‘talent’ go on holiday around this time too. Expect some tetchy reporting as this goes on
any Unite high brass being affected by the strike?
No. They’re all traveling 23-26 March.
They travel first class on Air France dumbo…
Hows that work then
hows that work
I bring ‘ee Doubloons as purloined from Mendoza ‘imself master!
David Miliband is today back to positioning himself for the leadership after Labour’s inevitable defeat in the election. Canvassing support from colleagues and some union bosses.
Expect Ed Balls and co to resume smearing anytime soon.
David Miliband? PM?
Why not let my son be PM? He’s 10 and he’s already more PM material than that fucking arsehole Miliband.
David Miliband is a committed Marxist and Israel-firster and hates all things English.
He is, thus, the selected candidate of certain of those who wield power behind the scenes in the Labour Party.
He’s still Bliars chosen one, so watch this space.
chosen one
or Chosen one…
I thogh that was Mandyfairy’s title…
I think you’ll find it is I, the People’s Cameron, who is the true chosen one of my hero Tony.
This will be fun
Eddy Blinky smearing Milli-Mossad…
Which side will Mandyslime be on ?!
And Hoodie Whelan ?
Bets ?
FUCK OFF
I just paid six quid for a cappuccino.
I can’t believe the Costa coffee at the motorway services.
You’ll be paying that for a gallon of unleaded soon…..
Petrol has shot up today to £1.20 a litre here in Essex. Why is this not being reported on the BBC?
I bet it would be headline news if the Tories were in government.
The BBC is reporting it. They’re repeating Labour’s lies about this being the oil companies profiteering as opposed to a direct result of the completely fucked UK currency tanking against the USD. A situation caused by this incompetent Labour government’s total economic clusterfuck (ongoing).
It’d be interesting to see price of oil in £/barrel since the time it edged up past $100.
140 *50.2 =£ 70.28 peak of july08 $140
120 *50.8 =£ 60.96 a bit before: May08
80 *67 =£ 53.60 Now.
So theres perhaps a few months in 2008 when oil was more expensive in £ than it is now. Without redoing the numbers, I’d guess crude oil was more expensive than now (in £) from about april to august 2008.
The difference in pound terms will be the increased fuel taxes since 2008.
Brown has completely screwed up our currency so crude oil, which is traded in dollars, is increasing in price here in the UK.
Prepare for petrol to continuing rising in price alongside most foodstuffs and other imported goods.
Britain’s living standards are going to suffer for decades to come in order to pay for Brown’s wilful financial recklessness. Voting him back in in eight weeks time would finish us off completely.
This morning the price at some petrol stations here in Cheshire has rocketed from 1.10 to 1.25 per litre.
If you haven’t filled up then try to find a garage that hasn’t raised prices yet because they will have raised them before the end of the day for sure.
this is the last fucking straw, and darling and broon
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, Governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity (or fairness) of the existing distribution of wealth.
As the inflation proceeds and the real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from month to month, all permanent relations between debtors and creditors, which form the ultimate foundation of capitalism, become so utterly disordered as to be almost meaningless; and the process of wealth-getting degenerates into a gamble and a lottery.
Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of Society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.
Source:http://voxday.blogspot.com/2004/07/lenin-inflation-and-destruction-of.html
Gorgon, and Darlin’ are are no Lenin.
Now our munchkin Pete I’m not so sure about…
Yes indeed, Stan.
No, no, no. It’s the Horrible Tories, talking down the pound and the economy.
The hedge funds and speculators would NEVER have noticed how truly f***** the British economy was without the Tories pointing it out…
Have a look at Political betting they’ve got a whole betting thread on it. Layoff some of the extra costs!
More about this on PB.com.
http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2010/03/16/what-if-the-price-of-a-litre-reaches-gbp-120/
I like their graph, It would be interesting to superimpose the £/barrel price over the top, if anyone can be bothered.
I wonder if Lindsay Hoyle would print me a T-shirt with it on.
Out of a £ 1.20p litre of unleaded, I collect over 80p in taxes. Good innit !!
Now, where’s our chauffeur ??
Where is Dolly when we need him ??
Do you think he is now working covertly for the Tories ?!
As an electoral psychologist…
RIFL
And Poison McBride still sweeping up the ZanuLabour school…
ROFL
The bbc are trying a new wheeze to avoid too much publicity on BA strike.
Blaming the EU for meddling in UK economic policy and seemingly supporting the Conservatives. Liebor are constantly stated as saying the EU is wrong – bbc base this on how on earth can the most incompetent government in a developed (so far) nation be ever wrong?
Ironic considering the bbc EU bias and their borrowing of millions of euros from the ECB for their “commercial development”
Must have caused complete panic at the Beeb – 2 favourite causes in opposing corners!! Mind you a couple of lines of toot and a quick caress from a rentboy probably calmed things down – blame the Tories.
Rather to my surprise, Lord Pearson, UKIP leader, was interviewed on WATO by Martha (labourluvvy) Kearney, albeit not for long. He pointed out the savings identified by the Taxpayer’s Alliance of about £50 billion per year, and annual payment to the EU of about £15 billion per annum. She shut him up, and quickly moved on to someone else.
FROM poster on pb.com
The UK deficit already over 12.5% of GDP is expected to reach 12.6% later this year against an EU target for 2015 of just 3% . Those who have been following the Greek situation where they have been described as an economic basket case in need of a Eurozone bailout will not be pleased to hear that the UK is the only country in the EU with a higher deficit as a % of GDP.
http://www.redragonline.com/2010/03/uk-finances-in-worse-state-than-greece.html
When in London
Do as the Greeks do
I say
It’s the right thing to do…
I like a bit of Greek!
They don’t call him Pete the Pederast for nothing !!
Stephen (I speak out of the corner of my mouth) Timms on DP is almost silent,and can’t keep up with Ken Clarke…hohoho.
Brillo tells Timms that only 7% of City folk want Darling as Chancellor,whilst 35% want Ken….”Labours love affair with the City is well and tuly over” says Brillo…..
hahahaha.
Fuck me, local garage just put up prices this morning from £1.09.9 to £1.24.9 in the last hour. What’s going on. The world’s gone fucking mad.
Don’t worry, I’ll sort all this out personally before the election, as well as those deplorable BA strikers, Peter said.
If you were getting petrol at 1.09.9 a litre you were getting a good deal.It’s been 1.15 per litre at my local garage since Xmas. Expect petrol to hit 1.25-1.30 per litre that’s before Brown/Darling put in their two-pennorth on the duty escalator.
Have tou not realised.China is buying up spare capacity;the UK exchange rate is “fucked(courtesy of Brown)and anyway why would Labour worry about the motorist anyway ?
And when VAT goes to 20% expect another arsefucking.
Is there no-one to explain to the mongs that they only raise extra revenue providing we continue to purchase the SAME amount of fuel? And that for every litre that someone decides NOT to buy, 40 other people MUST buy one litre just for the Teasury to break even. Twats.
Feel sorry for those duped into buying new cars through the scrappage scheme – those shiny new economical models will now cost as much to run as the old banger, except that the old banger was owned outright. Now they have a loan to pay off, higher interest rates on the horizon and a car worth fuck all as soon as the ECU goes.
True. they know the US is a spent force and are going to show the rest of the world what real immigration is like
Charlie Wheelan. A hug and a kiss from his friend.!!
http://is.gd/aJGb7
Thank you. I’ve just been sick…
Brown is up to the knuckle on this one
I prefer it up to the wrist!
May 5th petrol prices……….£1.05 a litre. Job done.
May 5th.you are pished
Unite – who helped to found the Labour Party – give money to the Labour Party.
Shocking, really, isn’t it.
Shocking to live in the 19th century
Yes !!!
What’s shocking is that taxpayers are being extorted to fund the Labour Party via the conduit called UNITE.
It’s our fucking money they’re giving them tosser.
unite received 5 million quid (since 2007)direct from taxpayers which they then sent straight back to gordon to fund his manic 1000 year ( iwill go on, bcause i want a majority) reich.
money laundering pure and simple. taxes are funding gordon’s lies. i wouoldn’t pay a single penny to labour voluntarily, unless of course it was the for the chinese system of forcing people to pay for the bullet that saw off the convicted……..in which case i would pay for as many bandoliers as were required.
If the Conservative get in this country will be hit by strikes not seen since the winter of discontent, protests to make the Poll Tax riots look like a Sunday afternoon stroll in the park and every business held to ransom by ever more militant unions who will walk out at the drop of a hat. The unions have largely been laying low under Labour, waiting to strike when the Torys take over.
I hope Labour stay in power. I’m a Conservative but I’m voting Labour at the next election because I want to see them sort their own shit out. It’ll finish Labour off for good when this country is so bankrupt it can’t pay the feral underclass their benefits.
A plan like that can only have come from Baldrick’s Broadcasting Company.
Thats the quality of tat troll now
You sir forget one thing.
GORDON BROWN
Irrespective of the niceties of your arguement I want to be happy again. That will not happen until Brown is cast down and out of office. Dragged by his hair. Screaming. Pummeled to death by an infestation of post-bullied administrative staff. Arse Nokia-ed and dropped from a 100ft bunjy a depth of 60ft into a bucket of quick drying cement.
Hoooo boy. We’re into serious barrel-scraping territory now.
Pravda DP have Derek Hatton on. Feckin’ Hatton.
WTF are Pravda up to ?
I couldn’t believe seeing him again.
The stuff of nightmares.
Glad to see he looked as rough as a badger’s arse though.
Hatton started life as a fireman…
I think Mandy has called him in to try and put out the growing fire that is engulfing ZanuLabour on all sides…
If Hatton is on the DP it will be a combination of Hatton’s self-delusional self-promotion and Andrew Neil setting him up to remind folk just how fuckwitted it was the last time Labour were in opposition.
It’s just reminding folk what a good reason it was to keep those jackasses out of power.
Kinnock next
gott und himmel he’s fucking wrecked
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/the_daily_politics/8570342.stm
beckham’s career is over! brown sent him a get well soon and best wishes!!! he is cursed now!
My election manifesto:
Grown-up control of Government spending;
Abolish all new criminal offences created since 1997;
Abolish all public-sector jobs with any of the words ‘outreach’, facilitator’, ‘co-ordinator’ or ‘equality’ in the title;
Implement Gove’s reform of education;
Increase all MPs salaries, so that MPs whose consituencies are far from London are paid more, but abolish all expense claims; pay MPs a large bonus if they meet targets;
Announce a cull of 50% of all quangos. Those that wish to survive must compete for the remaining places;
Fight only defensive wars;
Introduce a three-year moratorium on any new regulation and review all existing regulation.
i’m in . where do i sign up? and why no clause on benefits?
I would add, that with the exclusion of certain areas of the public sector, if you receive more than 51% of your income from govt then you release/lose your right to vote.
No representation without taxation, as Harperson once said at a PMQs
/www.politics.co.uk/sketch/opinion-former-index/legal-and-constitutional/pmqs-sketch-end-of-term-truce-disarms-harman-$1347523.htm
Except for those in the military…
Also…
criminal investigations into Labours war crimes
SAR Policy (Stop and Return) for Immigrants – except those ones with Doctorates in Science and Engineering from Australia, NZ, Canada and the USA, whom we will give free houses to and a six month start up fund.
jail all quaffers
Giving a MP a bonus for reaching targets will only encourage them to set low targets that can easily be achieved or fiddle the figures to make sure the bonus was paid.
See the history of Enron for proof!
Dizzy onto another troughing MP with a dodgy invoice but this is for political campaigning by the looks.
http://dizzythinks.net/2010/03/dianan-johnson-mp-and-mysterious.html
Charlie Whelan now has a desk again in the Bunker…
Kill the bastard Guido, Put the red crosseye on him.
why do scum charly wan kill guido
DID YOU KNOW?
Early life and career
The son of a civil servant, Whelan went to the Ottershaw School, a boarding school in Ottershaw, Surrey. He studied Politics at the City of London Polytechnic (which became the London Guildhall University in 1992).
In 1980 Whelan became a foreign exchange dealer. From 1981-92 he was a researcher and assistant to Jimmy Airlie of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union.
[edit] Resignation and later career
Whelan resigned as Brown’s spokesperson in 1999 after leaking information relating to Peter Mandelson’s resignation over a home loan. He has since carved out a career in the media. Whelan currently works as political director for Unite, Britain’s biggest trade union.
In April 2009, it was revealed that Whelan was copied in on emails from Damian McBride which proposed to publish lies about opposition politicians and their families on the internet. The ensuing scandal forced McBride’s resignation, followed by personal letters of regret from the Prime Minister to those named. A leading article in The Times on 16 April 2009 called on Unite to review its relationship with Whelan as a result.[1]
[edit] Personal life
Whelan now lives in the village of Dulnain Bridge, in the highlands of Scotland.
very toffee
http://www.osobs.co.uk/
Smear emails: Charlie Whelan profile
Charlie Whelan is another former special adviser to Gordon Brown forced from his job amid allegations of smears against the Prime Minister’s enemies.
Not allegations chum
Alastair darling named Hoodie Whelan and Poison McBride as the “Forces of Hell” Gordon let loose on him…
His own Chancellor of the Exchequer
I expct Whelan to be in Cout before this is all finished…FFS
He needs an ATO quick
ANTI THUG ORDER …
thought he looked a bit worried on PMQ’s
BREAKING NEWS
ZanuLabour have offered the Kray brothers positions in their Bunker
In 1999, he stepped down as an aide to Mr Brown, then Chancellor, following revelations about the secret loan from Geoffrey Robinson to Peter Mandselson that forced the dismissal of both men as ministers.
A former City trader from Surrey who changed career and reinvented himself as a trade union official with a distinct Cockney accent, Mr Whelan became Mr Brown’s spokesman in 1992.
With his boss installed in the Treasury, Mr Whelan became a significant figure in the Westminster village, actively promoting Mr Brown’s interests and undermining his perceived enemies, including Tony Blair and his Cabinet allies.
His obscenity-strewn briefings, often delivered via mobile phone from a Westminster pub, helped create the stereotype of the hard-living, hard-driving spindoctor that developed in the early years of the Blair government.
After he left the Treasury, he spent several years in relative obscurity, mostly living in a house in the Scottish highlands and billing himself as a “freelance broadcaster, journalist and fly-fisherman.”
He resurfaced in 2007 with a new job at the top of the labour movement, working for Unite, the country’s biggest union. As political director of Unite, Mr Whelan’s precise duties are nebulous, but he controls a large budget and staff of press officers and public affairs specialists, giving him considerable political clout.
Few are in any doubt that that influence is used to benefit his former employer at least as much as his current one.
The revelation that Mr Whelan was privy to discussions about setting up the Red Rag website will only strengthen suspicions that he remains very much an active part of Mr Brown’s inner circle.
The emails also appear to confirm that the now-notorious site was to be have been nominally established and run by Andrew Dodgson, a press officer for Unite, whose ultimate boss is Mr Whelan.
and paid for by UNITE
Like the other sleazy sites they “sponsor”
flyboy fisherman. is that arrestable
The Treasury ‘serial killer’
Charlie Whelan is a regular at a pub opposite the Treasury
Charlie Whelan is the latest spin doctor to have become the story.
His position became untenable after speculation he was the source of leaks that gave the media the scalps of Peter Mandelson and Geoffrey Robinson before Christmas following the disclosure of a secret loan.
Now the Treasury press secretary is the latest victim of the scandal which rocked the Labour government.
Gordon Brown is a close friend
Mr Whelan made his name for his off-the-record calls to journalists on his mobile phone from a Whitehall pub.
He was Chancellor Gordon Brown’s press spokesman as Alastair Campbell is prime minister Tony Blair’s “official spokesman”.
Like Mr Campbell, a former political editor on a tabloid newspaper, both are from the old school of press relations.
Although he is known for his boisterous cockney expletives, Mr Whelan, who is 44, is not particularly working class.
From city dealer to communist
He is the son of a civil servant who went to a minor public school in Surrey.
He took a degree in politics at the City of London Polytechnic before becoming a foreign exchange dealer in the City.
But his left-wing sympathies led him to join the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, working for trade unionist Jimmy Airlie.
At the same time, Mr Whelan joined the Communists – and remained until 1990.
After Labour’s 1992 general election, Mr Whelan was recruited to the party by Peter Mandelson. Mr Whelan said he would only work for Mr Blair or Mr Brown.
Later, one of Mr Whelan’s favourite lines would become: “Peter Mandelson may have told you that, but it’s not true.”
The first row with Mr Mandelson came after the famous Granita dinner, where Mr Brown stood aside in the race to lead the party after John Smith’s death.
Mr Mandelson informed the media of the development without consulting Mr Whelan.
The loss of Mr Whelan, less than a month after the resignation of Geoffrey Robinson as paymaster general, will come as a bitter blow to Mr Brown.
Mr Whelan was not merely an aide to the chancellor, he is also a close friend.
‘Out of control’
He may be boastful and occasionally foolish, but he is described as loyal and often shrewd.
His robust manner complements the chancellor’s shy, controlled demeanour.
However, his opponents have described the former spin doctor as “a killing machine”, “out of control” and a “serial killer”.
After Labour’s election victory in 1997, Tony Blair is alleged to have ordered Mr Whelan be sacked or brought within the control of Number 10 but the chancellor refused.
Gordon Brown and girlfriend Sarah Macaulay: Whelan tipped-off the media
Although a successful spin doctor, Mr Whelan has made many enemies over the years through his bruising technique.
Robin Cook is believed to have suffered at Mr Whelan’s hands. In the run-up to last summer’s Comprehensive Spending Review, it “emerged” before any formal announcement the Foreign Office budget was a target for cuts.
Cynics also suggest Mr Whelan was not a million miles away from some stories that appeared about Mr Cook and his extra- marital affair with Gaynor Regan, who is now his wife.
As well as spinning on Treasury policy, Mr Whelan has also been instrumental in promoting Mr Brown’s personal life.
One of his most successful “leaks” was the news Mr Brown was romancing public relations consultant Sarah Macaulay.
However, Mr Whelan’s demise comes for something he has adamantly denied leaking – that Mr Mandelson borrowed £373,000 from Mr Robinson to buy a Notting Hill mansion.
Although he is a good friend of Mr Mandelson’s unauthorised biographer Paul Routledge – helping him with an earlier book on Gordon Brown – both denied the spin doctor was the source of the leak which led to Mr Mandelson’s downfall.
good
fuck him
he’s a scumbag
Tell me how much of your personal fortune you’ve put on a hung parliament, and I’ll match it tat, you slag.
a billion gazillion pounds
fuckwit
how come you get to name locations were to find the shits. I get modded when I do it.
I’ll be honest – I’m fed up with all this nonsense.
I just want the fat Scottish cyclops to call an election so we can be rid of him.
FFS Brown, just call the damn election.
teachers begging balls for money on twitter:
@edballsmp PLEASE ED, ALLOW THE HT GRANT TO BE USED FOR REVENUE THIS YEAR, PLEASE ED!
4:33 AM Mar 14th via TweetDeck in reply to edballsmp @edballsmp the smallest primary in Glos is paying over £12000 to be connected to the grid, sec only 7K
4:32 AM Mar 14th via TweetDeck in reply to edballsmp @edballsmp Ed, please help us! Please DO NOT IGNORE THIS – Glos
Brown will have to forcibly prised out of Downing Street to drive down The Mall to ask the Queen for a Dissolution. AND even when he loses the election he’s refusing to resign
Charles Clarke, the former Home Secretary, said: “Damian McBride was not a lone gun in the politics of No 10. He was part of a poisonous team. The matter won’t be laid to rest until all links with Charlie Whelan are severed.”
Only yesterday, Colin Byrne, a former Labour chief press officer close to Peter Mandelson, asked publicly a question which many are asking in private: “What the hell is a strike-mongering, politically discredited nutter like Charlie Whelan doing at the heart of Labour’s election campaign?”
None the less, Mr Whelan is indeed back, and using both his Number 10 access and his union’s influence to do the best for Mr Brown. Under his direction, Unite has given £11 million to Labour since 2007.
Many heard Mr Whelan’s distinctive voice in Mr Simpson’s decision to launch a harsh attack on Mr Brown’s rival for the leadership, David Miliband, calling him “smug” and “arrogant”.
Three years on, there are still two separate headquarters. Mr Simpson presides in King Street, Covent Garden, a few doors down from the old Communist Party HQ. Less than a mile away, Mr Woodley occupies the old T&G head office on Theobalds Road. They were supposed to integrate their rules and party structure, but it didn’t happen. In 2008, the T&G even took legal advice about the possibility of unstitching the merger.
Along with the two leaders and the two HQs, some attractive perks have survived, too. Mr Woodley enjoyed a 20 per cent pay rise last year and asked the union for nearly £100,000 to vacate his heavily subsidised grace-and-favour flat, bought by an acquaintance in a deal worth £1 million.
Mr Simpson has an £800,000 house provided at union expense in Berkhamsted, 35 minutes from London. Despite this, he felt the need to spend four nights in a £399-a-room Waldorf Hotel suite for a meeting (“it would undermine him if the union prioritised cheapness of accommodation,” a Unite spokesman said.) Mr Simpson also flew twice by helicopter to the Glastonbury Festival.
fantastic pic Guido!
But don’t forget Whelan is also pushing postal votes, which will be delivered post the royal scam mail deal.
If these postal votes had to be delivered by airmail, Whelan would have called off the BA strike.
More importantly, the union has put some of its differences aside in a common, political cause: defeating the Tories. And that is where the third man in the Unite love triangle comes in – Charlie Whelan, the former spin doctor to Gordon Brown.
Mr Whelan was forced to resign from that post in 1998 after being implicated in the “knifing” of Peter Mandelson. He spent several years giving fishing lessons in a remote part of Scotland. But in 2007, he re-emerged as the union’s political director.
You will not see Mr Whelan on TV or hear him on the radio, but you are likely to hear a great deal about him in the weeks ahead. Because, as well as his union job, and just in time for the election, Mr Whelan appears to have revived his hugely controversial role as Mr Brown’s campaign strategist and attack dog. Memories of his previous tenure are still sufficiently vivid to cause a shudder across the political establishment.
As Mr Brown’s press secretary, Mr Whelan’s threats to journalists and off-the-record abuse of Mr Brown’s opponents were notorious. He played a big part in poisoning relations between Mr Brown and much of the rest of the Cabinet.
According to journalists, Mr Whelan was one of the “forces of hell” unleashed on the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, during the economic crisis. He was copied in to the Damian McBride “smeargate” emails, in which his successor as press secretary plotted to spread false online rumours about David Cameron and various wives and partners of Tory frontbenchers. Meetings about Labour’s online strategy took place in Mr Whelan’s Unite office.
Can’t think what all the fuss is about. That £11 mill is a gambling debt and is non enforceable. We, the unions, will gamble on how far we can go putting off any strike action before the Torys get elected. Nostardamus didn’t see this armaggedon comming did he, dumb ass.
But I notice that Charlie is thus far strangely silent on the other biggest story of the day. It even involves Unite, the union in which Whelan is a leading figure. From his perch as the director of Unite’s political department, he is central to keeping the union movement on side. He’s back being an unofficial adviser to his great friend Gordon Brown.
Slightly awkward news then that Unite cabin staff at British Airways are back with another annoying strike vote today. (They’ll deign to tell the traveling public which flights they’ll wreck after a meeting tomorrow morning). This is a huge potential inconvenience to passengers and not much help to a struggling BA trying to survive the effects of the downturn.
As of 6:30 tonight, nothing on this — yet — from Charlie. He must be gathering his thoughts before pronouncing? I’ll keep you posted.
Just confirmed registration for David Cameron’s ‘meeting with the piss artistes community’ tomorrow…
he doesnt have a meeting with the cabinet scheduled for tomorrow!
Does not exist according to google
only click here if you are not easily upset or squeemish.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04/11/article-0-046783C1000005DC-284_468x382.jpg
I did warn you ok?
What? “Call me Charlie” Whelan? aka Charles Alexander James Whelan, public school boy? THAT Charlie Whelan?
Labour CUTS Dementia funding, OFFICIAL: Bob Ainsworth IS Fred Kyte, Ed should quit, and Labour’s friends launch vicious attack on Whelan and Unite. Labour attacks Welsh tourist industry. Call for Purcell case investigation. Labour down in polls. The election will be even more interesting than we thought…
fucking jeez,looks like baron harkonnen
http://therecshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/dune-harkonnen.jpg
Steady on! The Baron is not that bad!
Gonna use that when Gordon calls it
Under the political direction of Charlie Whelan, Unite is using its financial and organisation muscle to drive government policy and build a Labour Party very different to the one that appealed to Middle England and won three general elections. Instead, with Gordon Brown as leader, there has been a reversal of much-needed public service reforms, a return to industrial militancy and a regression into atavistic class war rhetoric.
“There can be few more powerful forces of conservatism opposed to the flexibility, freedom and choice of the post-bureaucratic age than the Whelanist Tendency now in control of the Labour party”, Gove said.
“Labour’s re-unionisation has put them in bed with the past at a time when it is crucial that this country wakes up to the future.”
The document sets out in detail the way in which, in the three years since Gordon Brown became Prime Minister, Unite has spent more than £11 million of its members’ money on buying influence within the Labour Party.
This extends from placing a key union operative inside 10 Downing Street to taking effective control of many cash-strapped constituency Labour parties and installing Unite activists and officials as prospective Parliamentary candidates.
If you want a sense of how much work Charlie Whelan and Unite are doing on behalf of Gordon Brown, then I’d recommend you read Rachel Sylvester’s column in the Times this morning. There are the millions of pounds in funding, via the taxpayer, of course. There’s Unite’s “virtual phone bank,” canvassing votes for Labour. And then there’s Whelan himself – now almost as involved as ever with the Downing Street operation, and “working closely” with Douglas Alexander on Labour’s election campaign. This is, I remind you, the Charlie Whelan who was copied into the Smeargate emails, and whose other indiscretions are better described by Martin Bright and Nick Cohen, here and here.
In many respects, the influence of Unite and Whelan is one of the great unexploded scandals of British politics.
#gameover
Let’s explode it then…
What utter, soordid, smearing scum…the most obscene group of people ever to have crossed the door of 10 Downing Street
And the appalling Gordon Brown cannot resist surrounding himself with these people…
Even Mandelsime seems to have had enought of this
And that is saying something…
A PARTY WITHIN A PARTY, THE NEW MILITANT TENDENCY
Michael Gove has spoken about “Charlie Whelan’s New Militant Tendency” in a speech setting out how dependent the Labour Party is on Unite – Britain’s biggest trade union.
His speech marked the launch of a new document that shines a light on how Unite has taken advantage of Labour’s near bankruptcy and the departure of Tony Blair to gain an unprecedented grip on the party.
Byrne, a former Labour Party chief press officer with strong links to Lord Mandelson, lashed out on Twitter this morning.
He said: ‘What the hell is a strike mongering politically discredited nutter like Charlie Whelan doing at the heart of Labour’s election campaign?’
Whelan stepped down as a special adviser to Gordon Brown, then chancellor, in 1999 amid claims that he had leaked sensitive information about Mandelson which led his resignation from the Cabinet.
Since then Whelan has been political director of the Unite union, but has remained close to Brown and is now reported to be set for a key role in Labour HQ during the election campaign. Although Downing Street has denied that he is returning in an official capacity, Whelan is already believed to be working closely with Douglas Alexander, Labour’s general election co-ordinator.
Political commentators have recently hinted at disquiet in the Labour ranks over the return of Whelan. But until today Labour figures have refrained from public criticism of the controversial former spin doctor.
Although Byrne has not had a formal Labour role for some time, he was the Labour Party’s chief press officer from 1988 to 1996, working closely with then communications director Mandelson, and also sharing a flat for three years.
Byrne joined Shandwick Consultants in 1996 and was made European CEO of Weber Shandwick UK and Ireland in 2009.
Whelan told PRWeek he was not aware of the Weber Shandwick boss. Asked for a response to Byrne’s comment, he said only: ‘Who he?’
“Who he?” Probably your nemesis, “Charlie” boy…
‘Politically discredited’ ?????????
If I can come back, anyone can come back.
desperate men do desperate things
So Whelan is the subject of today’s Two Minutes Hate? Too easy. Pick somebody with some attractive features.
AS OPPOSED TO LIEBOUR’S 13 YEAR HATE OF THE ENGLISH?
And don’t forget
SCOTTISH LABOUR = ORGANISED CRIME as well…
I can’t think of a nicer person to hate…
Unions have ‘unprecedented grip’ on Labour, claim Tories
• Eric Pickles says Unite and other unions are ‘calling the tune’
• Michael Gove attacks ‘Whelanist Tendency in control of Labour’
Whelanist Tendency = Militant Tendency
Nice one…
Kill the traitors…
“Not only is this Labour government failing to embrace the post-bureaucratic age, they are ushering in the second Mesozoic era, with a succession of dinosaurs trooping through Downing Street,” Gove said.
“There can be few more powerful forces of conservatism opposed to the flexibility, freedom and choice of the post-bureaucratic age than the Whelanist Tendency now in control of the Labour party.
“Labour’s re-unionisation has put them in bed with the past at a time when it is crucial that this country wakes up to the future.”
“How can Charlie Whelan simultaneously be the political director of a union which is paralysing British Airways at the same time as he’s directing the political activities of Britain’s prime minister?”
Because Titanically demented Brown is no longer in control of anything…
He is merely “paraded” by Mandelscum and Blinky Balls to keep them in power..
While the Government, Parliament, Country and everything else goes to hell in a paper bag…
And the first person to know the degree of Brown’s mental incapacity
is : HOODIE WHELAN
His long-time “friend”
Simple really…
What i find interesting is that the media do not associate the public spending cuts which are going on at the moment in Universities, the police, hospitals, local authorities etc with the “big political debate” between cutting now and putting it off until another day (not martin btw). It is like er some parallel universe man.
Also does anyone else think that charlie whelan is hypocritical or what?
NO, JUST ANOTHER JESUS CHRIST, I GUESS
Don’t sell out Martin
Martin Day Labour MP has spoken about the possibility of working as a minister under a government led by Conservative leader David Cameron. …
I haven’t the imagination, silly.
You know its the right thing to do.
I hope the Tories (if they get in) invoke anti-terror laws, much like Gordo did to Iceland, to seize all the large unions’ assets if they kick off and try to hold this country to ransom.
GORDON Brown finally condemned the BA strikes yesterday – sparking fury from union leaders.
After almost 72 hours of dithering, the PM called the stoppages “deplorable” and “unjustified”.
In contrast, the Tories blasted the strikes within 90 MINUTES of the announcement last Friday.
But last night Mr Brown was facing a backlash from left-wing Labour MPs and Tony Woodley, boss of the Unite union – which has given the party £11million over three years.
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2894165/Gordon-Brown-feels-the-BA-cklash.html#ixzz0iLb2wWAA
I don’t think he said the Union’s action was deplorable, just the whole situation – which is of course rather different.
I think he’s deplorable
UNITE’s Support Should Count As Labour Election Expenses
http://iaindale.blogspot.com/
Very possibly wildly O/T but which do you think would be the most likely letter for Gordon and Peter to choose?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/7456271/The-Pilobolus-Human-Alphabet-photographed-by-John-Kane.html
My money shot’s on C, I, S and Y.
Letter I, please Carol….
69
I’ll have a P please Gordon.
No.1 or No.2,Peter?
So how much of that £11million that charlie whelan’s UNITE have given to gordon, originally came from the taxpayer and was given by gordon to UNITE.
Laundering taxpayers money for the benefit of the cash strapped labour party or what??!
Martin Day is set to be recognised on the same level as other bloggers in a charity-driven awards ceremony that has been publicly backed by the leaders of all three major political parties.
Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg have all thrown their support to the ‘British Bloggers Awards’. The fact that they are all celebrating innovation while simultaneously avoiding the kind of real, financial support that would mantain that same innovation merely indicates that there’s a general election approaching: gesture politics for the win
and your point is?
That I’m a pillock
don’t let me down Martin
British blogs for British bloggers
ANOTHER UNITE UNION “PERSON” GETS PARACHUTED IN
JOHN CRYER
* John was a successful and respected Parliamentarian and he will be again, he can hit the ground running as an MP.
* The next election will be very hard fought; John has the experience of campaigning, energy and dynamism to win.
* John knows how to get things done for the people of East London both as a constituency MP and a trade unionist.
* John has experience of campaigning at all levels from local to national Government.
* John has strong support among the trade union movement and can mobilise resources in the battle to defend Leyton and Wanstead.
he does have a lot to live up to. After all this was Harry Cohens seat!
it really does seem that we should really rename “Unite’s Liebour Party”.
Real Liebour RIP.
i wonder who will be parachuted into crawley? they could do with a nice union person down there so near the airport……………………………………
Thank God the Muppett woman has seen the light and realised that she would have been toast at the election. What a true waste of space she was. Speaking to her was rather like addressing a 5 year-old (with apologies to all 5 year-olds). She and NuLiebour were made for each other – thick and useless.
LIEBOURS’ NEXT CABINET IF THEY WON THE NEXT ELECTION
GORDON BROWN
ED BALLS
JACK DROMEY
HARRIET DROMEY
LORD TONY WOODLEY
LORD DEREK SIMPSON
LORD BOB CROWE
LORD MANDELSON
LORD PAUL
SPIN DOCTORS:
CHARLIE WHELAN
DAMIAN MCBRIDE
SPIRE GROMAN
DEREK DRAPER
harriet Dromey hahahahah
Did he wear a dress when he was interviewed?
Was it that Giraffe suit that Harridan wears so often on a Wednesday at 1200 hrs.?
Did he seek advice from Mandy in perfecting that ‘mincy mandy’ walk?
All questions to be answered.
LORD ASHCROFT
A member of the Lords committee that awarded Lord Ashcroft a peerage in 2000 is to appear before an inquiry by MPs to give the only first-hand account of the mystery still surrounding his ennoblement.
Lady Dean will appear alongside Sir Hayden Phillips, the senior civil servant who agreed to downgrade the undertaking Ashcroft gave to become a “long-term resident” instead of a permanent resident, allowing him to retain his non-dom status.
But Ashcroft and the shadow foreign secretary, William Hague, have so far refused to say whether they will attend.
The four have been invited to give evidence to the public administration select committee (PASC) on Thursday, the same day that the subcommittee on Lords’ interests will consider a complaint from the Labour MP Martin Linton that Ashcroft breached the code of conduct governing the behaviour of peers.
Martin Day:
What could happen:
“In answer to your question, when Lord Paul…”
INTERRUPTION “That’s enough! Your answer has totally vindicated Lord Ashdown! Shit! I mean Lord Ashcroft! Case dimissed! Please, PLEASE go away!”
It isn’t that simple to change domicile. If Ashcroft were becoming resident in the UK purely so that he could be politically active here, it would probably not make him domiciled here, as it would be a temporary purpose. There is a lot of confusion about these very technical matters. Domicile is not a tax concept at all, but one of general law with implications for taxation.
Some writers seem to think that Ashcroft could ‘elect’ to be domiciled in the UK. Clearly Ashcroft has gone to great lengths to dodge paying UK tax, but that doesn’t mean he can just ‘opt in’ again and their Lordships must be deemed to have known that when they recommended him to Her Majesty.
What about an enquiry to investigate the mytery surrounding that cun.t Mandelscums ennoblement? I still find it beyond beleif even now….
Working through the strike.
Don’t worry Slidebustle. I and very many others will be working too. Be proud that you’re standing up for our customers, our colleagues, our airline and ultimately ourselves. It’s vital to stand up for what you think is right and I’ll be honoured to see you there.
I know it’s is scary for some people and lots of crew are very, very frightened and confused. But if you want to work, then you absolutely must not let that fear deter you from doing so. Or else they have won. I will pm you and if you want I will meet you on Saturday and we can go in together.
This has all been totally avoidable and totally unnecessary. I hope that the Unite reps are hanging their head in shame. Unfortunately, they will probably be drafting another despicable letter like the one they have sent to the LGW crew. I feel a blame game coming on – “It’s not our fault the strike didn’t work – it was down to LGW crew”.
I’m having lunch with Laud Poorl today at Locanda Locatelli. I do hope nobody spots me…..http://twitter.com/eyespymp .
Ha! “I’ll get this Sarah, you got me the Privy Councillorship” @eyespymp: Sarah Brown lunching with Lord Swraj Paul in Locanda Locatelli.
Bollox, Gordie will slap me sensless when he finds out!
Spaghetti alla puttanesca
Nice one. Fuc*ing Great.
They are obviously shagging.
I’ve just been buggering my wife and i noticed little pieces of toilet paper stuck to her arsehole.
Fucking Charmin
I’ve just been buggering Gordon and bumped into Toenails on the way out.
That is a comment by a woman if ever there was one. You are caroline flint and I claim my £5.
I want to fuck dirty Caroline Flint
Oh , Lord , Brown has just sent David Beckham his best wishes . Poor lad will be coming back minus his leg .
Charlie Charlie Charlie
tut tut tut
Old troll is old.
canny bloke the pope figures 3 months + should be just enough of a safety zone to separate him from any trace of the dreaded jonah curse.
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“Phillip, don’t mention the war”
Phil will probably ask if he still has the brown shirt in his wardrobe.
There goes somebody who flunked their degree in cutting-and-pasting from the University of Basingstoke (formerly John Aroltt College).
Just popping out for a moment, anyone care to join me?
Don’t you just love the way the narrator on the yesterday channel don’t refer to the once leader of Germany as Hitler but the Fuhrer
I’m stocking up with books from the local charity store in anticipation of May 7th. I’ll then sell them at a profit to the mongs for the big book burning party.
It’s far better being funded by 1.2 million Unite members than by 1 tax-dodging Lord Ashcroft. Any day
That would be one voluntary donator, compared to 1.2 million who were not asked what they wanted their subs to be used for then.
1.2 million unite members with a collective damaging unreasoned support for labour sitting around at work watching reruns of eastenders and picking their noses v Ashcroft, yeah right.
You fucking scumbag Martin, do you think the public find it funny that we and my fucking taxes are be used to prop up Labour you fucking dick dead donkey fucking mother pissing peice of flaccid dried up old shit.
Ashcroft may of been a Huhne but at least he put his hand in his own pocket instead of Charlie fuckign scumbag dog fucking corpse eating shit for brains Whelan sticking both his grubby hands into MY pockets to fund the labour party.
Guido there has to be some mileage in tax payers money being given to Unite and then being funneled back to liebour!!!!!!
Time for another McBride type scandal.
Don’t hold back Union person tell us what you really think
http://issuu.com/conservatives/docs/cashgordon
The dossier on Charlie whelans new militant tendency
Have a nice holiday
Guido Exclusive! Labour Party linked to Labour Movement!
Good to see you’re getting the talking points ok.
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And here they are on the way to Number 10.
Honestly, how is it news that much of Labour’s money and many of its MPs come from the unions? Where did you think that they came from under Blair, who was sponsored by the T&G and therefore by Unite throughout his time at Westminster? The T&G stitched up a seat for him in the first place, to stop the Hard Left ex-Minister, and 1979 ejectee, Les Huckfield.
Ah, there’s the rub. It was the unions that used to pack the PLP with working-class patriots and social conscience toffs, with temperance Methodists and traditional Catholics, whose priorities were the Welfare State, workers’ rights, trade unionism, the co-operative movement, consumer protection, strong communities, conservation rather than environmentalism, fair taxation, full employment, public ownership, proper local government, a powerful Parliament, and a base of real property from which every household could resist both over-mighty commercial interests and an over-mighty State.
Those commitments were fully and actively compatible with, and more than compatible with, a no less absolute commitment to any or all of the monarchy, the organic Constitution, national sovereignty, civil liberties, the Union, the Commonwealth, the countryside, grammar schools, traditional moral and social values, controlled importation and immigration, and a realistic foreign policy.
Then New Labour emerged from the sectarian Leftist fringes of academia and student politics. But now the unions are re-emerging. Bringing with them MPs such as the above? We live in hope. But we cannot risk dying in despair. Forget the Labour Party and organise such candidates anyway. Then, as much as anything else, demand of the unions why they fund New Labour instead.
Oh, for pity’s sake, get out of the Eighties. People do not now have fits of the vapours at the mention of a trade union. As much as anything else, a trade union is a body of people living, working and paying taxes in this country, who do not avoid the last by declaring another state to be their natural home.
When Margaret Thatcher broke the closed shop, made it possible to opt out of the political levy (as one fifth of Unite members do), and drove trade unionism out of the private sector by destroying that sector’s manufacturing base, then she removed the leavening influence of millions of working-class Tories from the selection of the Labour candidates for the safe Labour seats in which they lived. Think on that.
never did one man generate so much puke in so many bags ,,,,,,,,,,,uuuuuuublop
Boy…. I look pretty in my suit.